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Speaker 1: What is up?

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Speaker 2: Everybody?

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Speaker 1: Welcome into a TGIFF addition at Texans All Access a

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Speaker 1: day before the game edition of Texans All Access, and

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Speaker 1: holy cow, how exciting does it get? I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: John Harris Football on a sideline reporter from Indianapolis. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a little peak behind a curtain

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Speaker 1: because of our travel schedule, trying to get a two

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Speaker 1: hour show from six to eight pm back.

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Speaker 2: Here in Houston.

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Speaker 1: Well, I recorded this before we took off, so we

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Speaker 1: still have got all the same elements. Because everything moved up,

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Speaker 1: we got all the same elements we normally would have.

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Speaker 1: Do we have Demko Ryans in his pregame talk with

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Speaker 1: Mark Vandermer, Yes we have that. Do we have a

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Speaker 1: Drew's dozen and a pregame interview with Drew? Yes, we

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Speaker 1: have that with Jerry Hughes. Do we have an assistant

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Speaker 1: coach joining us, Yes, we do. One of our favorites,

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Speaker 1: Draw Johnson. For many, many reasons, both Mark and I

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Speaker 1: did work with girod even before he got into the building,

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Speaker 1: and he tells some tremendous the stories. We go way

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Speaker 1: back to twenty nineteen when the lead eleven camp. He

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Speaker 1: was the coach of CJ Stroutz. We talked about that.

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Speaker 1: Do we have an enemy behind enemy sidelines interview? Yes

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Speaker 1: we do. Drew Doherty did that. We have some cutlets

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Speaker 1: from Drew. Yes, we have Michael Dieter joining us. Do

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Speaker 1: we have my picks and our keys, Yes, we have

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Speaker 1: all of that. Do we have Demico reloaded at the

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Speaker 1: end of the show, Yes we do. So we've got

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Speaker 1: everything we would normally have. We just I just had

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Speaker 1: to record it before we took off. So hopefully everybody's

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Speaker 1: okay with that, because this game is as big as

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Speaker 1: it gets regular season wise.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you think back to twenty eleven, even

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Speaker 1: had the Texans lost that game of the Bengals, they

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Speaker 1: still could have won another couple of games at the

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Speaker 1: end of the year to get into the playoffs. At

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Speaker 1: that point, it is after the fact you look back

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Speaker 1: and go, oh, yeah, that was a massive game because

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Speaker 1: they won it and then got some help so they

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Speaker 1: could get into the playoffs. We remember that as a

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Speaker 1: tremendous regular season game. I still think first and four

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Speaker 1: most number one Wilways be two thousand and two, the

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Speaker 1: opener against Cowboys, But other massive regular season games I

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Speaker 1: don't know that any other matches up to this, at

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Speaker 1: least heading in I don't know that we've played a

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Speaker 1: game playoffs and in In the regular season we played

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Speaker 1: some big, big primetime games. Cowboys and eighteen comes to mind,

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Speaker 1: Titans at eighteen comes to mind. The Chiefs in seventeen

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Speaker 1: on Sunday Night was a massive ballgame Alex Smith against

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Speaker 1: Ashan that was incredible. No regular season game has ever

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Speaker 1: had this on the line win and in in the

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Speaker 1: last week.

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Speaker 4: Of the year.

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Speaker 1: I mean, think about think about the recent years that

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Speaker 1: we've had. In twenty twenty two, we were playing the

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Speaker 1: Colts and well, there's no sense in rehashing that. Twenty

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Speaker 1: one we played the Titans. We were trying to keep

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Speaker 1: them from the number one seed, but we were just

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Speaker 1: playing out the string. Twenty twenty to the Titans again

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Speaker 1: on the final play of the game. But where are

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Speaker 1: we going nowhere? Nineteen we were playing the JV squad

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Speaker 1: in the final week of the regular season because we

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Speaker 1: had clinched the division the year before that. Twenty eighteen

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Speaker 1: but we were playing a really not so good Jacksonville

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Speaker 1: Jaguar team. In our building. Twenty seventeen, we played one

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Speaker 1: of the most I don't want to say worst regular

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Speaker 1: up in twenty seventeen, there were names on that roster.

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Speaker 1: You're like, wait, who's Chris Slade.

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Speaker 1: So twenty sixteen we went to Tennessee, playing the JV

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Speaker 1: roster again in that particular game. So the end of

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Speaker 1: the regular season has not been very sexy. In fact,

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Speaker 1: three of those times we were playing JV rosters because

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Speaker 1: sort of goes out saying this one big and perhaps

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Speaker 1: nobody knows it more than Demico Ryans, and he sat

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Speaker 1: down with Mark Vandermier, Mark taking away.

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Speaker 6: All right, coach, here we go Indianapolis. How has preparation

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Speaker 6: been for this one? A little bit different with the

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Speaker 7: Yeah, a little different. It's been a really solid week

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Speaker 7: of preparation. I feel like our guys got the much

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Speaker 7: needed rest that we needed and now we put the

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Speaker 7: work in these past two days right to be in

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Speaker 7: a good position to go out and play our best

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Speaker 6: A lot of said about Jonathan Taylor He's had some

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Speaker 6: big days against the Texans historically, but this is a

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Speaker 6: new Colts team. Let's talk about the run though. How

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Speaker 6: you approach stopping the run. You've been doing it very well,

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Speaker 7: Right this team here, the Colts, they hang their hats

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Speaker 7: on running the football, so they're gonna stay after it.

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Speaker 7: Shane really likes to run the ball, so again, stopping

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Speaker 7: to run it always goes back to our front four.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 7: If our interior de tackles our dns, they do a

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Speaker 7: really good job of resetting the line of scrimmage and

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Speaker 7: we can get some negative plays in the run game.

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Speaker 7: Think that that'll get them out of their run game

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Speaker 7: early and force them to throw the ball. And that's

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Speaker 7: kind that's our game plan. That's what we have to do, right.

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Speaker 7: We really can't let them continue to get positive yardage

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Speaker 6: What has Gardner Minshew done for them this season and

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Speaker 6: what concerns you about him in this matchup?

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Speaker 7: I think Gardner has given them confidence that they can

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Speaker 7: go win games with the backup quarterback. Right, He's proven

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Speaker 7: to be able to make plays. I think They've made

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Speaker 7: the run game and the RPO game, so they throw

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Speaker 7: the most RPOs in the league. So the ball is

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Speaker 7: coming out fast, so Gardner doesn't have to sit back,

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Speaker 7: hold the ball and make the right decision. It's happening

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Speaker 7: quick for him. So we have to play tight coverage.

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Speaker 7: We have to stop the run. And the thing where

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Speaker 7: Gardner has thrived a lot is where he scrambles out

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Speaker 7: that turns into explosives and that's where they've gotten their

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Speaker 7: big plays. And that's where we have to be conscious

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Speaker 7: of as a defensive line, Like where is he trying

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Speaker 7: to escape to right? We have to make sure we

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Speaker 7: are on it. Try to make make sure we're containing him,

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Speaker 7: keeping them in the pocket, and force him right to

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Speaker 7: make some throws within the pocket and not off schedule.

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Speaker 6: They have a lot of guys who get a lot

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Speaker 6: of sacks. So what about the past protection part of

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Speaker 6: this for you?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, for us, we have to be soliding in the interior.

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Speaker 7: We know, right Buckner Steward, those are two big time players,

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Speaker 7: so we have to dominate those guys, which is a

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Speaker 7: tough task. But our edges is where the first game

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Speaker 7: we didn't handle the edges too well so and they

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Speaker 7: got us right. They were able to force the fumble

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Speaker 7: after that turnover. So for us, if we can handle

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Speaker 7: on the interior guys handling the edges, making sure we're

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Speaker 7: right and see if we can gain some explosives down

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Speaker 6: You've had some great moments this year in the third phase,

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Speaker 6: the kicking game. What about that match up with the Colts.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that matchup is going to be It's going to

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Speaker 7: be interesting one to watch. I think it's all on

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Speaker 7: the punt game, right, punt block team, and also the

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Speaker 4: They have many.

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Speaker 7: Various looks, really good scheme, really well coached. So they're

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Speaker 7: going to stress us in our protection. So we have

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Speaker 7: to protect first, protect, protect, that's the most important thing,

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Speaker 7: right because these guys have blocked to think four kicks

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Speaker 7: on it there. And then when it comes to the

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Speaker 7: return game, right, we got to see if we can

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Speaker 7: force them right to make a bad kick or force

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Speaker 7: a block. But in the return game, can we just

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Speaker 7: get going, can we gain positive the artists? Can we

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Speaker 7: create some momentum for our team in a punt return game.

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Speaker 7: I think it's there. Everybody dominated their one on one block.

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Speaker 7: We'll have a chance.

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Speaker 6: Great stuff, coach, good luck, Thank you, Mark.

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Speaker 1: Great stuff from Dimico as always now one of the

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Speaker 1: coaches that he got to know a little bit in

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen when he was on San Francisco, but we

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Speaker 1: all in Houston already knew about him from Humble. Played

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Speaker 1: college ball Texas A and M. Played in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: played a number of different leagues, became a coach, ended

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Speaker 1: up in San Francisco with the Bill watsh Fellowship, ended

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Speaker 1: up in Indianapolis for a few years, was Ryannick Sirianni

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Speaker 1: then ended up here with the Houston Texans. That's Gerrod Johnson.

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Speaker 1: That's radio with Mark. He actually did a college football

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Speaker 1: game with me. I was calling a game of my

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Speaker 1: TV partner Tom Franklin and they said, oh yeah, you

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Speaker 1: have drodden and the sidelines. I'm like, do the Drod

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Speaker 1: Johnson like the Girod Johnson Like what am I doing

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Speaker 1: up here? That guy knows everything about football and he

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Speaker 1: was gonna prove it. But d was just trying things

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Speaker 1: off for size, trying to find out what would work.

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Speaker 1: Coaching works. He has a natural gift for being a leader,

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Speaker 1: being a coach. We talked about all of that with

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Speaker 1: Jarrod Johnson right here here.

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Speaker 6: With us now in the hun Day Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 6: Texans quarterbacks coach Gerrod Johnson, Girod, how's it going going good?

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Speaker 8: Man, just had a good day of practice, got some

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Speaker 8: good weather, got a lot of good work in so

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Speaker 8: it was a good day outstanding.

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Speaker 6: Well, I've been waiting for this visit for a long time,

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Speaker 6: all right, And he said this, This is not the

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Speaker 6: first time you and I have been on the air together.

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Speaker 6: In fact, it was probably well over ten years ago. Yeah, Well,

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Speaker 6: what a journey it's been for you.

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Speaker 1: Me not so.

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Speaker 6: No, I've been here the whole time and I love it.

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Speaker 6: But You've had this odyssey of being a quarterback coaching,

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Speaker 6: working your way up and here you are now, how

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Speaker 6: does it feel to be back in Houston and the

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Speaker 6: quarterbacks coach of this team?

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Speaker 5: For me, man, it's a dream come true.

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Speaker 8: You know, you grow up your whole life and humble

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Speaker 8: where I'm from, you know, and and you know you

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Speaker 8: watch the Texans at your local team as your home team,

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Speaker 8: and so you want to first off, as a player,

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Speaker 8: you want to play for the Texans, you know, you

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Speaker 8: just want to do something to get in this building.

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Speaker 8: And then all the things I've been through, all the

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Speaker 8: places I've coached, all the things I did in the

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Speaker 8: game of football, for all to kind of circle back here.

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Speaker 8: You know, it's been pretty pretty kind of surreal to

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Speaker 8: say the least. But it's definitely a dream of mine,

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Speaker 8: you know, coaching for the Texans and starting our family

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Speaker 8: I mean, the season is definitely a ground for US coaches.

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Speaker 1: So a few years ago, in fact, think it was

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Speaker 8: of guys who really just are relentless and straining to

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Speaker 8: be the best version of ourselves. And I think that's

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Speaker 8: that's really cool to see because if everybody individually is

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Speaker 8: constantly trying to become, you know, better and putting in

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Speaker 8: the work to do the things to kind of push

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Speaker 8: the limits of their own ability. Going to a guy

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Speaker 8: to your right that's doing that, they got to your

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Speaker 8: left is doing that, then it holds you accountable individually.

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Speaker 8: And I just think we're kind of creating a culture

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Speaker 8: of guys and coaches and trainer everybody here coming every

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Speaker 8: day with your heart, head on, ready to be the

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Speaker 8: best version of yourself, to try to put your hand

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Speaker 8: in the pile to try to push this organization ultimately

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Speaker 8: where we want to go.

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Speaker 1: Drod, you after Champransisca, you go to Indianapolis for I

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Speaker 1: can't remember it's two or three years, but you were

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Speaker 1: there for a decent amount of time and you and

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Speaker 1: I would talk before the game. It was always great

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Speaker 1: to see you. I always wanted to come back to Houston.

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Speaker 1: But you've come back to Houston in the right situation.

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Speaker 6: Is it odd?

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Speaker 1: And I know the NFL works this way, you go

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Speaker 1: from one team to the next year, play your former team,

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Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff, but you did spend some

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Speaker 1: intimate time and a lot of quality time up in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: Is it odd to go back up there and play them,

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Speaker 1: especially in the game this big?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: I mean that was I mean that was my really

468
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Speaker 8: like first major full time coaching experience in the NFL

469
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Speaker 8: was with the Colts, and so I have a lot

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Speaker 8: of respect and love for the city and that organization

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Speaker 8: for giving me that opportunity. Chris Ballert, the general manager,

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Speaker 8: he was a godsend for me. He's got me as

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Speaker 8: a player, and he was in him and Frank, But

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Speaker 8: I say Chris was probably the biggest reason I was

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Speaker 8: at Indianapolis and gave me that opportunity. So I have

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Speaker 8: the utmost respect for them, A lot of respect for

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Speaker 8: those players I was there. We drafted you know, John

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Speaker 8: and Taylor and Michael Pittman and around Quinton and all

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Speaker 8: those guys.

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Speaker 5: So, I mean, they're a really good team. They're their

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Speaker 5: group who's who's hungry.

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Speaker 8: I know Shane a little bit as well through Nick,

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Speaker 8: Him and Nicker they're really close and the Eagle staff

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Speaker 8: who were all Indianapolis with me. But I'm excited to

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Speaker 8: go back. But I have a lot of respect for

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Speaker 8: that place. But you know, I'm getting the coach from

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Speaker 8: my home team for a shot to get into the playoffs. Man,

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Speaker 8: So a lot of respect for Indianapolis, but you know

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Speaker 8: we're we're hopefull we can go up there and get

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Speaker 8: the job done.

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Speaker 6: All right, one more for you and allow me to

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Speaker 6: go back. AAU basketball. Oh boy, yeah, AAU basketball. And

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Speaker 6: you played for coach John Lopez, right, yes, Houston hoops. Okay,

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Speaker 6: So tell me how coach Lopez was leading the team.

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Speaker 6: What kind of coach was John?

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Speaker 8: He was great, you know, I mean, he's a communicator,

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Speaker 8: he's a connector, you know, and so he really was

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Speaker 8: just I mean he he ran the one three run press.

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Speaker 8: He had a really good feel for the game, you know.

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Speaker 8: Like I said, he coached me from I think fourth

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Speaker 8: grade onto my senior year. The sun Wow, man, so

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Speaker 8: too much Lopez, you know what it's it's it's a

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Speaker 8: lot of Lopez, man. But I think the world of

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Speaker 8: coach Lopez. Him and Jacob, I mean they're like family

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Speaker 8: to me, you know. And so but it was a

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Speaker 8: lot of great experiences. But he was a really good coach.

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Speaker 8: He was great handling personality. He's a great communicator, and

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Speaker 8: he just cares, you know. And as a player, if

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Speaker 8: you know your coach cares, you know, that's that's that's

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Speaker 8: really what drives you to to play for him. But

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Speaker 8: we had a lot of fun, a lot of backs

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Speaker 8: of burgers, you know, that was just go to and

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Speaker 8: the feeding. You know, twelve twelve fifteen year old boys

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Speaker 8: in a in a van going to who knows where

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Speaker 8: we're playing basketball tournaments.

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Speaker 5: But it was a lot of good good times. We

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Speaker 5: had to be had a really good team.

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Speaker 8: We put a lot of good talent, a lot of

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Speaker 8: guys that are in the NBA and some of those

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Speaker 8: moments made me realize that I was a football player.

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Speaker 8: So it was a good time, man, And I'm very

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Speaker 8: thankful to how Passinger and the Houston Hoops and that

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Speaker 8: organization that's still rolling right now and putting out players.

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Speaker 8: But it was definitely a bright spot in my childhood

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Speaker 8: or my growing up was playing for the Hoops.

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Speaker 6: Excellent. Well, Gerard, thanks so much for joining us, and

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Speaker 6: we appreciate the visit. Best of luck, Thank.

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Speaker 2: You, man.

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Speaker 1: I had a blast talking with Grod. I wish we

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Speaker 1: had gotten to do that a lot earlier. And he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be head coach for too long. There's no question

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Speaker 1: in my mind. He's gonna rise through the ranks. He

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Speaker 1: has such a great feel for leadership and has done

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Speaker 1: a really good job with CJ Straub this year. Obviously

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Speaker 1: having that knowledge, institutional knowledge of CJ before that and

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Speaker 1: seeing him grow that was one thing. Obviously we talked

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Speaker 1: a lot about in this conversation, but really really good

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Speaker 1: stuff until he started talking about Lopez and then it

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Speaker 1: wo just went down.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

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Speaker 1: I love the og UH and it was always cool

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Speaker 1: because it's funny because you know, I always use the

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Speaker 1: word coach for somebody that I know has coached me

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Speaker 1: or has been a coach for a long time. But

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Speaker 1: it's kind of it's always strange when you don't know

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Speaker 1: somebody as coach and then you hear somebody call them

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Speaker 1: coach because coached Lopez. I'm like, whoa, that's weird and wild,

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Speaker 1: but good stuff from Girod and from the Mika. Okay,

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Speaker 1: big one on Friday or on Saturday. Gotta get ready

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Speaker 1: and to do that, we'll have my keys to the game.

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Speaker 1: But what I've done the last couple of weeks is

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Speaker 1: that brought Mark vandermir into my layer, so we could

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Speaker 1: do a little bit of the keys together. So we'll

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Speaker 1: bounce those keys both sides of the ball, and obviously

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Speaker 1: special teams as well. The Colts are well, the Colts

556
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Speaker 1: are pretty good at hitting a punter because they get

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Speaker 1: back there so quickly.

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Speaker 2: And we got to talk about all of that next

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Speaker 2: on Texans All Access.

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Speaker 6: What's up, everybody?

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to a Friday edition of Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host John Harris, football an, a sideline reporter

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Speaker 1: and the voice of the Texans who's called every single

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Speaker 1: game of this franchise history, t o V the official

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Speaker 1: Voice's VOT.

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Speaker 6: It's VOT. That's what the guy down the hall said

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Speaker 6: to me. Oh, you weren't in on this conversation. It

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Speaker 6: was Dy and Drew on Tuesday, and he called me

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Speaker 6: the Oh I heard you guys. Yeah, I was listening,

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Speaker 6: and I said a guy down the hall, one of

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Speaker 6: the security guys here for the CFP acronyms going on

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Speaker 6: right now. He said, VOT to me, I'm Voice of

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Speaker 6: the Texans. Pretty cool.

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Speaker 5: I like that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I like that. I can't promote it by I.

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Speaker 6: I liked ND's answer the OV. You like the OV,

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Speaker 6: the original voice? Okay, which, but that implies there might

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Speaker 6: be another voice, right, that's true. There is no other.

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Speaker 6: There's no and there won't be. There's from other from

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Speaker 6: my cold dead hands. You will probe this microphone.

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Speaker 1: Okay, though, but I have I'm gonna throw a math

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Speaker 1: question at you before we get to our keys to

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Speaker 1: this game, right, Okay? So you started in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and two, right, correct? And we went up to Indianapolis, Yes,

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Speaker 1: And we went up to Indianapolis how many times from

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Speaker 1: two thousand and two to.

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Speaker 6: Twenty thirteen thirteen. That was thirteen times. Yeah, twelve times, oh,

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Speaker 6: twenty thirteen. I said, so that's twelve times, right, twelve

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Speaker 6: times okay, And the record was h twelve okay, yeah,

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Speaker 6: twenty fourteen, my first year on the sideline through two

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Speaker 6: thousand and two. Oh, you have a good record up there, relatively.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: If we win on Saturday, huh, of the games, it

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Speaker 1: will be ten games up in Innneapolis, five and five.

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Speaker 6: If we win, you're five and five, five and five

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Speaker 6: up in India.

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Speaker 2: If we win.

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Speaker 6: When we when we win, we five and five up

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Speaker 6: in India. That's how amazing. That's the stat of the

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Speaker 6: weekend right there. How about five and five? If you

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Speaker 6: will not get to put.

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Speaker 1: Me off that plane, I need to be on that

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Speaker 1: plane so we can go five and five. So then

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Speaker 1: I did a little research and I started thinking, okay,

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Speaker 1: oh boy, Demico's never won up there, right, And then

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Speaker 1: I was like, okay, well he played with Philly and

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Speaker 1: he coached at San Francisco, so I checked the coaching first.

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Speaker 6: In seventeen they lost up in India. I'm like, oh, oh, yes, yeah,

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Speaker 6: he was quality control.

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Speaker 5: I know, I know.

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Speaker 6: But in twenty fourteen, as a member of the Eagles.

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Speaker 6: They beat the Colts up and a oh good, So

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Speaker 6: there's nothing to worry about it. Nothing to worry about that, right,

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Speaker 6: Not that we think about such things, and we're superstitious.

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Speaker 1: Right, right, right, right, But it's listen, I realized in

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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, and obviously, having been a you know, a

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Speaker 1: Texans fan before I got on the sidelines, I knew

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Speaker 1: how difficult it was to win an Indian and when

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Speaker 1: a place kind of has its house of horrors grip

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Speaker 1: on you, it's like you've got to do everything possible

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Speaker 1: to break it. And sometimes you never know where that's

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Speaker 1: going to come from. And it came from Brandon Wheden

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Speaker 1: and Jalen Strong. Yeah, I mean, wait, what of all years? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: of all years? You did it then?

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Speaker 6: And look you hang around me, so you know, I

626
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Speaker 6: tell these stories often Texans tales of the past. So

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Speaker 6: we don't need to do that because the team is

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Speaker 6: so different. You were telling me off the air before

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Speaker 6: we started here. You were going over the last primetime

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Speaker 6: game that on Thursday night primetime game. Yeah, so Thursday,

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Speaker 6: Well have we had oh we had a Thursday Night

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Speaker 6: in twenty one against the Patriots, Right, was that.

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Speaker 1: The point Thursday Night twenty one against the Panthers and

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Speaker 1: then last year is against Eagles, but you get a

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Speaker 1: Thursday night game.

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Speaker 9: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Now, technically the twenty twenty game was a Thursday night

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Speaker 1: game two, but it's a it was a primetimer.

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Speaker 6: It's because it's that was opening night of the whole league, right,

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Speaker 6: So in that game, So let's say twenty twenty opening night,

641
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Speaker 6: how many players are still here from that Texans team?

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Speaker 6: There will be three that play on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Three Eric Murray and Titus Howard played in that game,

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Speaker 1: but they they're injured.

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Speaker 6: Obviously we won't see those two.

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Speaker 1: Three three will play in this game that played in

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Speaker 1: the last non Thursday prime.

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Speaker 6: Time league is so fluid, because McClean pointed out last night,

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Speaker 6: even from the first matchup with the Colts this year. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: and I misunderstood his question because he said, how many

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Speaker 6: offensive players starters are going to be started on Saturday

652
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Speaker 6: night that started in week two? Yeah, that's a lot

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Speaker 6: of McLean impersonation. Well, I mean I just pulled it up.

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Speaker 6: It was two.

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Speaker 1: It's two Tank dell out, Josh Jones, we could see him,

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Speaker 1: but he started laimer Tuns will start Kendrick Green started

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Speaker 1: at left guard.

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Speaker 6: He's out for the year. Jared Patterson starts center. He's

659
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Speaker 6: out for the year.

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Speaker 10: Shack.

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Speaker 6: I said to Shack and I saw him in the

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Speaker 6: locker room. I was like, hey man, you got a

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Speaker 6: break today, and he kind of smiled.

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Speaker 1: He knew exactly what I was talking about. George Fanner

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Speaker 1: right tackle. Now we'll see how it goes with It's

666
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Speaker 1: Charlie or George to Toriano at tight end. Wow, Robert

667
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Speaker 1: Woods hopefully Robert's back, CJ back and then Damian We

668
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Speaker 1: anticipate Devin will start.

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Speaker 6: So that's so YEAHO, that's a lot of that's a

670
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Speaker 6: lot of change, a lot of change in sixteen weeks

671
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Speaker 6: from week two and all right back to that twenty

672
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Speaker 6: twenty opening night game the Texans only three players remain.

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Speaker 6: What about the Chiefs. You were telling me about the Chiefs. Now,

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Speaker 6: if you look at the Chiefs from twenty twenty opening

675
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Speaker 6: night right to where they are now, it's amazing and

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Speaker 6: it goes to what you and I have always talked

677
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Speaker 6: about this for years. The league, the churn on players

678
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Speaker 6: is tremendous. We should bring this up with Nick next week,

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Speaker 6: that the Chiefs. It looks similar because you have Patrick

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Speaker 6: Mahomes quarterback, Kelse She is there, but the rest of

681
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Speaker 6: them Clyde Edwards, Hilaire, Chris Jones, but the rest of

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Speaker 6: that about it. It's about it. Yeah, they're all different. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: it's incredible. And they went does Super Bowl that year.

684
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Speaker 6: They got bumped out by the Bengals year before. They

685
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Speaker 6: won the Super Bowl last year.

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Speaker 1: So it's not as if they, like us, sort of

687
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Speaker 1: hit hopefully rock bottom and then came back up.

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Speaker 6: So you're resetting the roster. That's why you give them

689
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Speaker 6: a ton of credit for what they've done as an organization.

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Speaker 6: The entire offensive line from twenty twenty is gone. And

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Speaker 6: I'm here to tell you I always pointed this out

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Speaker 6: about the Patriots. Tom Brady's there, a couple of other guys,

693
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Speaker 6: but the rest of them churn, churn, churn throughout the

694
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Speaker 6: twenty years he was there. Are you kidding? They flipped

695
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Speaker 6: that team ten times over. It's amazing and still worse

696
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Speaker 6: successful And for the Chiefs to still be this good.

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Speaker 6: And I know they're having a down year, but Johnny

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Speaker 6: here they are. They're having a down year. We'll go

699
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Speaker 6: back to the postseason. See how it goes. I mean,

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Speaker 6: that's what's happening with them. Yep, win the division, host

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Speaker 6: a home playoff game. Take it from there. That's a

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Speaker 6: down year for the Chiefs.

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Speaker 9: It is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're gonna play a road playoff game with

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes the first time ever. If they win, advance,

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Speaker 1: If they advance exactly, they got to win their game

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Speaker 1: at home.

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Speaker 6: I wouldn't.

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm with you, and we've gone through the playoff scenarios.

710
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Speaker 1: I usually save this for my keys to the game,

711
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Speaker 1: so in this I'll put it this way. I feel

712
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Speaker 1: like there there are two keys to the game. There

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Speaker 1: are many other ancillary ones, but I feel like there

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Speaker 1: are two massive ones, and I want to get your

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Speaker 1: thoughts on number one. I feel like the Colts guard

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Speaker 1: center guard as good. That trio is as good as

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Speaker 1: any in the league. Quentin Nelson, Ryan Kelly and will Freeze.

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Speaker 1: Freeze is the one that's that's a bit surprising. I

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Speaker 1: watched him in week two and I'm watching him during

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Speaker 1: the game. I'm like, man, he's pretty good. Kind of

721
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Speaker 1: came out of nowhere. I think those three guys set

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Speaker 1: the tone. I think their tackles are a little shaky.

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Speaker 1: Braydon Smith's been shaky because he's been banged up. Bernan

724
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Speaker 1: Ryman has been shaky just because he's trying to find

725
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Speaker 1: himself as a young offensive tackle. But that trio of

726
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Speaker 1: guard center guard for the Colts, I think sets the

727
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Speaker 1: tone for everything do. On the other side, I feel

728
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Speaker 1: like it's two guys. I feel like it is buck

729
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Speaker 1: and Stuart, It's Grover Stewart, it's the Forest Buckner. And

730
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Speaker 1: if you can control them, you'll have a chance to

731
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Speaker 1: do what you want. But if you don't control them,

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Speaker 1: then you're gonna be in.

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Speaker 6: A lot of truckles. Control me. Just keep them off CJ.

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Speaker 1: Just keep them off CJ. For the most part, they're

735
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Speaker 1: gonna get their run stops. Yeah, you don't want them

736
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Speaker 1: creating TFLs. You don't want them beating a block one

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Speaker 1: on one and just eating up CJ quickly before he

738
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Speaker 1: can even set his feet to throw, or getting in

739
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Speaker 1: his face, getting a big hit on him. Obviously, we

740
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Speaker 1: don't want that to happen. Just limiting their impact in production,

741
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Speaker 1: keep the TFLs down, you know, and you know, if

742
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Speaker 1: you get to a point where you can just occupy them,

743
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Speaker 1: so then Devin can make cuts off of them, so

744
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Speaker 1: Damien can make cuts off of them, as opposed to

745
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Speaker 1: they beat a block so quickly that they're the roadblock

746
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Speaker 1: and the backs can't go anywhere because they're right there

747
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Speaker 1: to make a play.

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Speaker 6: Well, that's kind of what Nick was saying earlier, right,

749
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Speaker 6: why is the running game better? Nick earlier this week

750
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Speaker 6: was telling us, well, we cut down on the TfL. Yes,

751
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Speaker 6: that's absolutely because even if you get stopped a yard

752
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 6: or two, and we saw this in the O'Brien era,

753
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Speaker 6: if you could just make progress. I know it's not sexy,

754
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Speaker 6: but at least you're moving forward. Now you get a

755
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Speaker 6: shot maybe on second down to do something, third down

756
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Speaker 6: to do something. At least you're not losing yardage. And

757
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Speaker 6: that's the other thing about this game, and I pointed

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Speaker 6: that out, I think it was in the pregame show

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Speaker 6: with Sean and Seth last week. You got to cut

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Speaker 6: down on those it's second and twenty five, it's a

761
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Speaker 6: third and forever because you not only had a TfL,

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Speaker 6: but then you took a holding penalty or something like that,

763
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Speaker 6: or illegal hands to the face. All that crap cannot

764
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Speaker 6: happen in this one. You got to keep it moving

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Speaker 6: forward and get CJ in. Look, I'd love to have

766
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Speaker 6: first downs on every first down play and second down play,

767
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Speaker 6: but get CJ in third and manageable or third and

768
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Speaker 6: even medium, and he can handle that obviously very well.

769
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Speaker 6: Texan's one of the better third down teams. So let's

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Speaker 6: see what they can do cutting down on those things.

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Speaker 6: Like you pointed out, what's fascinating to me is the

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Speaker 6: Colts blitz less than every team in the league.

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Speaker 1: Yet mark how many games have we seen where Kenny

774
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Speaker 1: Moore is blitzing off the edge and nobody touches him

775
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Speaker 1: and sacks Deshaun the right?

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Speaker 6: I mean they when they do it, they do it selected. Yes,

777
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Speaker 6: they do it selectively. Do well.

778
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Speaker 1: E J. Speed had a sack on CJ where things

779
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Speaker 1: open up, he blitzes, he sacks CJ because nobody's accounting

780
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Speaker 1: for him. So the Texans got to be super super

781
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Speaker 1: smart with that sort of thing.

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Speaker 6: They cannot allow easy sacks.

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Speaker 1: And like you said, first and second down offense are

784
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Speaker 1: huge to me because they've got to be third manageable

785
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Speaker 1: because they do start to blitz. If they do bring

786
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Speaker 1: those things, Okay, boom, hit your hot, that could be

787
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Speaker 1: a first down, and.

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Speaker 6: He's doing that now more than he did earlier exactly.

789
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Speaker 1: And if you take profit as much as possible, you

790
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: will be fine.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

792
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Speaker 1: Coming up next, we're gonna get a little cutlet with

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Speaker 1: Michael Dieter. Plus pregame interview with Jerry Hughes, Fourth Band

794
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Speaker 1: represent Yo. That's next on Texans All Access. What's happen everybody?

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to our Friday edition of Texans All Access

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Speaker 1: from Monday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harris

797
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Speaker 1: foot Play on US sideline reporter for your Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: We are already in Indianapolis getting ready for Colts the

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Speaker 1: Texans seven fifteen, seven fifteen kickoff, Joe Troy Lisan TV,

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Speaker 1: Mark Andre myself on radio, and way we go. Now,

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Speaker 1: we got a lot to do in this segment, so

802
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Speaker 1: let's start off, and Mark and I talked about this

803
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Speaker 1: a little bit in the segment previously. This is one,

804
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Speaker 1: two three. It's six questionables on each side and some

805
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: big names. Two players are out for the Texans. They're

806
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 1: both for the Texans. Noah Brown is out dealing a

807
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 1: back issue. John Grenard didn't think we see either one

808
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: of them, but both of them are out. They did

809
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Speaker 1: not practice all week. Robert Woods. I think Aaron Wilson

810
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Speaker 1: had put it out there a few days ago that

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Speaker 1: Robert's gonna try and give it a go. He's questionable.

812
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Speaker 1: He did not practice this week, so he's questionable. So

813
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Speaker 1: we'll see how much he is able to do. Also questionable,

814
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Speaker 1: but at least limited participants today at practice, Will Anderson Junior,

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Speaker 1: Andrew Beck, Malik Collins, Sheldon, Rankins, Laramie Tunsel. Now the

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Speaker 1: thought is, I think those guys are planning on playing,

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Speaker 1: but you never know. Yeah, you have no idea. When

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Speaker 1: it says questionable, it is a true coin flip.

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Speaker 4: There's no doubt.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if any of those guys are gonna

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Speaker 1: have to work out for the game to try and

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Speaker 1: convince the training staff they can play. But Will, Andrew, Malik, Sheldon,

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Speaker 1: Laramie questionable. Now on the Colt side, six players questionable.

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Speaker 1: Chris Lammon's dealing with ankle. He did not participate in

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Speaker 1: practice day. He's questionable. He played last week pretty well

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Speaker 1: against the Raiders, actually filling in for Kenny Moore. Now

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Speaker 1: Kenny Moore is questionable, but he's been a full participant

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Speaker 1: in practice, so I expect Kenny Moore is gonna play.

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Speaker 1: I think we're also gonna see Zach Moss and Braden Smith.

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Speaker 1: They have been full participants in practice this week. Now,

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Speaker 1: the two players that I think will give it a go,

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Speaker 1: there's tough as anybody out there. Ryan Kelly center, Quentin

833
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Speaker 1: Nelson left guard. They're both questionable, both dealing.

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Speaker 2: With ankle issues.

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Speaker 1: Now watching them on filming against the Raiders, you couldn't

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Speaker 1: tell that there was an ankle issue for either one.

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Speaker 1: But as we know, at this point of the year,

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Speaker 1: when you've got offensive linemen, they have myriad things going on.

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Speaker 1: So my guess is we will see Ryan Kelly, Quintin Nelson,

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Speaker 1: Kenny Moore, Zach Moss, Braden Smith. I think we'll see

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Speaker 1: all of them.

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Speaker 2: Five to six. Questionable.

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Speaker 1: Lambon's is the one because he was DMP. That just

844
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Speaker 1: makes me think that he's probably not gonna be able

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Speaker 1: to give it a go, especially because he replaced Kenny

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Speaker 1: Moore and it looks like Kenny Moore is going to

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Speaker 1: be back, which I hate because I think Kenny Moore

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00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,720
Speaker 1: is just a Willow football player. He and Mike Hilton,

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00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 1: to me, are these two players I admire because they're

850
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,399
Speaker 1: not big dudes. They just got football IQ and we'll

851
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: play for days. The Texans have to account for kennymore

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00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 1: a lot of blitz and things like that, so I

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Speaker 1: expect we'll see Kenny Moore.

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00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 1: One of the guys that is going to have to

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Speaker 1: account for the blitz and all of that inside is

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Speaker 1: Michael Dieter.

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00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,799
Speaker 2: Drew Doherty caught up with him for a little Drew Doherty.

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Speaker 10: Cuttlet Texan center Michael Dieter. Here, Michael, this is a

860
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 10: big task always facing this Indianapolis front. How impressive are

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Speaker 10: those guys on the line for the Colts.

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Speaker 2: They're really good.

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Speaker 11: They get off the ball really well, they play hard,

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Speaker 11: they play physical, and the backers are really good too.

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Speaker 11: So it's a really fun challenge. But it's something that

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Speaker 11: we're prepared for. But like you said, they're really good front,

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Speaker 11: and they play fast, they play physical, and we just

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Speaker 11: got to be on our details on our assignment and

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Speaker 11: give us a chance.

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Speaker 10: At this point of the season, how do you think

871
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 10: as an offensive line, you guys have gelled together.

872
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 11: Well, obviously there's been a thousand different combinations in there,

873
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 11: which isn't always the case, but I think guys have

874
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 11: always been ready to step up and play, and the

875
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:14,399
Speaker 11: biggest thing is.

876
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:15,280
Speaker 5: Just being consistent.

877
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:17,359
Speaker 11: We just got to keep working towards that every day

878
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 11: this week and put it on film on a Saturday.

879
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 5: I was gonna say Sunday.

880
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 10: How refreshing is that you guys are playing a primetime

881
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 10: or it's been all noon games this all year.

882
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: It's huge.

883
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 11: It's something that you know you can't take for granted,

884
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 11: especially a game of this magnitude. It gives you a

885
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:36,839
Speaker 11: little bit of experience going into maybe if you know,

886
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 11: we get some playoff games all that stuff, but don't

887
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 11: want to look too far ahead, but getting all noon

888
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 11: games I want to call games. It's cool to have

889
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:46,840
Speaker 11: one primetime game. If you're going to go into the postseason,

890
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,319
Speaker 11: at least have one feel of a night game, a

891
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 11: big primetime.

892
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 4: Game for sure.

893
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 10: As a team as a whole, How confident are you

894
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 10: all right now? Especially after a win like y'all just had,

895
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,239
Speaker 10: especially knowing that your quarterbacks you just drout is back

896
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:00,040
Speaker 10: a super.

897
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 2: Comp and you have to be confident.

898
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 11: We got to just gotta go out there and every

899
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:06,399
Speaker 11: man do his job, do his assignment. Trust the guy

900
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 11: next to you, and that's all we need you. No

901
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 11: one has to have a superstar performance to win. Guys

902
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 11: just got to do their job and cut it loose

903
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:14,439
Speaker 11: and have some fun and we'll have the results we want.

904
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 10: Michael Dieter, appreciate the time. Best of luck on Saturday night.

905
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,719
Speaker 1: Thank you all right, one of the guys I highlighted

906
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,280
Speaker 1: in that segment a little bit earlier with Mark previous

907
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 1: segment talking about Michael Dieter. This interior scrugs Deeter, Shaq,

908
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: Shaquille Elijahwan Mason. Those three have got to play at

909
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,360
Speaker 1: a level probably not seen all year. They've got to

910
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 1: communicate with one another. They've got to be physical, they

911
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 1: got to pass games off. They've got to pick up blitzers.

912
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 1: They got to know where the blitzers are coming from.

913
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 6: A huge, huge.

914
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 2: Game for the interior of the Houston Texans.

915
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 4: Now.

916
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: Also is Jerry Hughes four been County represent Yo. Huge

917
00:38:56,760 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: game last week strip Sack Sean Rankin took it to

918
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:04,439
Speaker 1: the house. Huge play back to back touchdowns on place

919
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 1: from scrimmage. Brevin Jordan to play before that that Stripsack

920
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 1: Hughes huge by Jerry Hughes. Now he's gonna be huge

921
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: because there will be no John Grenard and that's gonna

922
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:17,960
Speaker 1: be a tough one. You hope Will Anderson can play,

923
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: but Jerry Hughes, Derek Barnett, my j Sanders are gonna

924
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 1: have to pick up the slack out on the outside.

925
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 2: There's no question.

926
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: Drew Doherty had a chance to catch up with Jerry

927
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 1: Hughes to talk about this one. We'll hear a little

928
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 1: dirty Drew's dozen later, but how about a little pregame

929
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:37,840
Speaker 1: interview with Jerry Hughes Fort Ben County Great right.

930
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 10: Here, defensive end, Jerry Hughes joins us. Now, Jerry, you've

931
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 10: been through quite a bit. You've seen a lot of football.

932
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 10: How special is it to be in this situation this

933
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 10: time of year, knowing where you guys were this time

934
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:50,279
Speaker 10: last year?

935
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 9: Oh man, it's huge.

936
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 12: I mean, it's an incredible turnaround for us this year.

937
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 12: But I mean, this is what we work for. I mean,

938
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 12: to get an opportunity to get to the playoffs. I mean,

939
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:00,920
Speaker 12: this is what you spend your offseason, your training. It's

940
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 12: always focused around getting to the postseason. Because we understand

941
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 12: when you're in the postseason, anything can happen and it's

942
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 12: always in any given Sunday mentality.

943
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 9: So, I mean, we're excited. I'm excited.

944
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 12: I'm reminding the guys just how far we've come from

945
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 12: being one of the worst defenses last year to already,

946
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 12: you know, making our way to being one of the

947
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 12: top defenses this year. And so, I mean it just

948
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,800
Speaker 12: goes to credit to how great of a coaching staff

949
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 12: we have, how great of a team we have where

950
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 12: guys are buying in and they understand that, you know,

951
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 12: we can seize the moment.

952
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:30,719
Speaker 10: Now you bring up that turnaround, and there's many many

953
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 10: reasons for that turnaround. You just brought up the defense

954
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 10: being improved. Specifically, why is the run defense so much

955
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 10: better this year?

956
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 9: I mean, we got some dogs fump this year.

957
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 12: I mean not to say that we didn't have last year,

958
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 12: but we added rank, we add it will, we had

959
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:47,279
Speaker 12: it Tart, we got Khalil coming in where coach Job

960
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,239
Speaker 12: brought in another guy Rod who's a Houston guy as well,

961
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 12: who's been working well with everyone. Has just been the

962
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 12: way that everybody's come together so well, I think, and

963
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 12: that's what you need for a d line to be successful.

964
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 12: You know, you gotta have a very cohesive group, and

965
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 12: that's what we got. No matter who's on the field,

966
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 12: we're always working towards one goal, either getting the quarterback

967
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 12: or knocking the running back back for yardist loss. And

968
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 12: so when you're thinking like that as a front, I mean,

969
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 12: that's that swarm mentality that Demico talks about it and

970
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 12: it shows on Sunday.

971
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 10: Yeah, it sure does. And man, it showed perfectly on

972
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 10: the strip sack last week. Will lev Is, how sweet

973
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 10: was that for you?

974
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:20,839
Speaker 1: Oh?

975
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:22,840
Speaker 12: Man, that was great. That's something that we talk about

976
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:25,919
Speaker 12: all week. Dino does a great job. Our secondary's coach

977
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,839
Speaker 12: does a great job with his presentation about getting out

978
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 12: the ball as he calls it, and so you know,

979
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 12: for us as a D line unit to get the

980
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:37,240
Speaker 12: ball and then also having enough awareness to scoop and score,

981
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 12: that was perfect. I mean, that was what we talked

982
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 12: about all year on defense. Just hated that it had

983
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 12: to come till late in the season. But now we're

984
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 12: hoping we can kind of get some more.

985
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 10: Yeah, you're on the board with that score, and that

986
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 10: doesn't happen all the time. You just bring up Dino

987
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 10: talking about the ball security. We heard about it earlier

988
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:55,399
Speaker 10: in the season. When Nico popped the ball loose after

989
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 10: the interception. Can you take us a little bit deeper

990
00:41:57,680 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 10: into that, because people probably listening right now are like,

991
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:01,799
Speaker 10: what's he talking about, Dino, And what's you talking about?

992
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 12: Yes, So during our team meeting, we have a presentation

993
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 12: where he gets up and he discusses the importance of

994
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 12: the ball, and so for us on defense, the offensive

995
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 12: guys get to hear how you know, we focus in

996
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 12: on attacking the ball. I mean, it's just important for

997
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:16,319
Speaker 12: us to get the ball back to them, and then

998
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 12: even more if we can score, just because we know

999
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 12: the statistics say, you know, when a defensive scor is,

1000
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 12: your chances of winning goes up astronomically.

1001
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 9: So for us, it's just them.

1002
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:29,359
Speaker 12: To get an inside of how we approach them and

1003
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 12: what we think about when we're playing football, and then

1004
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 12: we show it plays off when you know, we just

1005
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 12: so happen to give them the ball on an interception

1006
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 12: and he goo turns back into a defender, he punches

1007
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 12: the ball out. We get that ball, we get to

1008
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,320
Speaker 12: regain that possession right back without even the offense leaving

1009
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 12: the field. I mean, that's just guys taking the meeting

1010
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 12: room to the field. And that's just the testament to

1011
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 12: just great coaching when you can have coaches that are

1012
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,719
Speaker 12: putting that into into play, into the team meeting, so

1013
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 12: both sides of the ball can benefit from it, and

1014
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 12: then it shows up on Sunday.

1015
00:42:58,840 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 9: That's even excellent.

1016
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:01,799
Speaker 10: Yeah, you guys were in control. It was ten nothing.

1017
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,880
Speaker 10: When that happens, you stripped, the ball comes out. Sheldon

1018
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 10: Recket scores it all but slammed the door shut on him,

1019
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 10: and it felt like a carnival the rest of the game,

1020
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:11,360
Speaker 10: I mean, as far as the stay, it was a

1021
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 10: fun time. After that, I mean the game was basically over.

1022
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:14,359
Speaker 9: Yeah, it was.

1023
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 12: I mean, guys just started flowing. It was just that

1024
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 12: Ebson flow of the game. We called a wave right

1025
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:21,680
Speaker 12: when that touchdown happened, and it was just like we

1026
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 12: were hunting, you know, guys were pitting their ears back

1027
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 12: and we were coming after it.

1028
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 10: Okay, let's move forward. What's the task ahead this week?

1029
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 10: How impressive an offensive line is this one in the Colts?

1030
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 12: Very impressive. I mean, Braydon Smith is one of the

1031
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:34,399
Speaker 12: top tackles out there. I mean he does a great

1032
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 12: job of just neutralizing speed rushes as well as handling

1033
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:40,840
Speaker 12: the bull rush. Quittin Nelson is another veteran guard that

1034
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:42,799
Speaker 12: does a great job as well. So for us, it's

1035
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:44,840
Speaker 12: just how well can we attack, Minshew, How can we

1036
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:46,880
Speaker 12: get him off balance so he's not out there just

1037
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:49,759
Speaker 12: playing pitch and catch. We know Jonathan Taylor's a great back.

1038
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 12: We know Zach Moss as well, two backs that are

1039
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 12: over five hundred yards of rushing this year. So they

1040
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 12: got a double headed monster right there. So we know

1041
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:59,759
Speaker 12: when any time a coordinator has a stable like that,

1042
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:02,920
Speaker 12: the run game's gonna be persistent. You know, all four quarters,

1043
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 12: we're gonna see it. So we just gotta knock it out.

1044
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:07,319
Speaker 12: And it's just understand it's gonna be that kind of

1045
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:09,320
Speaker 12: ball game where we're gonna see those guys laid it

1046
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,439
Speaker 12: in the uh fourth quarter, we knock it out again.

1047
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:15,320
Speaker 12: Nothing really changes for us. We still play our swarm football.

1048
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 10: You just brought up, Minshew. You don't win nine games

1049
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 10: if you don't have effective quarterback play. What's been so

1050
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 10: impressive about him? What makes him who he is?

1051
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:24,320
Speaker 12: Uh, just how calm he's been under pressure getting the

1052
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:26,439
Speaker 12: ball out of it, says he seems like he's using

1053
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 12: that play clock well to determine where he's getting the

1054
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 12: ball to and then he does it very quick. He's

1055
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 12: very precise on who he's getting the ball to how

1056
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:35,839
Speaker 12: he gets it out. So for us, it's just up

1057
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:38,239
Speaker 12: front making it difficult for him. Pushing some of those

1058
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 12: taller offensive linemen in this way, maybe he'll shuffle his

1059
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 12: feet more.

1060
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:43,239
Speaker 9: All of this linemen are over six five.

1061
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 12: He's six one six two, so maybe just tryna use

1062
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 12: some of that to kind of slow him down, knock

1063
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 12: that timing off with him.

1064
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:51,360
Speaker 9: And uh those receivers, you.

1065
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 10: Guys are one went away from the playoffs. So as

1066
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 10: a Huestonian, how special has this year been for you?

1067
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:56,439
Speaker 10: With all that in in mind?

1068
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 4: Ah?

1069
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:57,359
Speaker 9: Man, this is great.

1070
00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 12: This is like what you dream of as a kid

1071
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 12: to play for your home city. To be one win

1072
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 12: away from the team that drafted you. You got to

1073
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 12: go in that hostile environment and beat them to knock

1074
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:09,240
Speaker 12: them out of the playoffs. It's like, this is football,

1075
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,400
Speaker 12: This is sports at its fine as This is everything

1076
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 12: you can actually hope for right here.

1077
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 10: Yeah, you brought it up. I can't let you go

1078
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 10: without it. What's it like playing the team that drafted you?

1079
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 10: You know, the place where you started.

1080
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 12: It's always fun going back to Indy reminiscent on my

1081
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 12: first couple of years there, but then just being in

1082
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:25,960
Speaker 12: this position right now with all the chips on the line,

1083
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 12: the cards are on the table, either win.

1084
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:30,239
Speaker 9: Or go home, and so when you have that mentality, that.

1085
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 12: Just hikes the game that much more. I told the

1086
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:34,759
Speaker 12: guys it's like being in a tournament ball right now.

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Speaker 12: We got our backs against the wall. We got to

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00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 12: come out swinging, and everybody has that mentality.

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Speaker 9: So we're ready.

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Speaker 10: We are ready to Jerry Hughes. Thanks so much for

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Speaker 10: the time. Best of luck on Saturday night in Indianapolis.

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00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 10: Jere Hughes, Let's get it.

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Speaker 1: That's right, my man, let's get it against the Colts.

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00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:52,160
Speaker 1: We'll tell you. The venerable Jerry Hughes has been around

1095
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:55,839
Speaker 1: for a while. I remember my dad calling me at

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00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 1: some point back in the day and he's like, hey,

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00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:03,919
Speaker 1: you should see this running back we played against all

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00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:04,839
Speaker 1: state running back.

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Speaker 2: Just a thick, strong, fast, Oh okay, cool. What's his name?

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00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: Oh, Jerry Hughes. Okay, well keep an eye on him.

1101
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 1: Where's he gonna go? Oh he's going to TCU. But

1102
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 1: he's not gonna play running back. Okay, we're gonna make

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00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: him a defensive end apparently, like all right, going for

1104
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:23,880
Speaker 1: All State running back to defensive end.

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00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 2: Oh, we'll see how that goes. Well. It's gone very

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00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:28,959
Speaker 2: very well for Jerry Hughes in his.

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Speaker 1: Career, and it's something that I try not to think about,

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00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 1: especially with all that's on the line, But you got

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00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: to think about guys that have been around for a while.

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Speaker 1: I hope to God this is not Jerry Hughes' last game, man,

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00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:44,439
Speaker 1: I really hope it's not. He has given so much

1112
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 1: this organization in the two years he has been here.

1113
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 1: He has been so fun to watch and just really

1114
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 1: a joy to be around in the locker room. His

1115
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 1: veteran experience has meant a lot to Willie Anderson, to

1116
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 1: John Grenard, and even to a guy like Derek Barnett

1117
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:01,120
Speaker 1: who's come in from Philadelphia. There's great tree tweet by

1118
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:05,320
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal today about Derek Barnett. He said, Derek Barnett

1119
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 1: has five more pressures than anybody on the Eagles.

1120
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Speaker 2: Since Derek Barnett has been with the Texans. How about that.

1121
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:17,239
Speaker 1: That's pretty impressive and hopefully Barnett Hughes ll Anderson if

1122
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 1: he plays Miijah Sanders, those guys are able to get

1123
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:23,680
Speaker 1: back to the quarterback and make some plays. Now when

1124
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:26,279
Speaker 1: we get back as we kick off the seven o'clock hour,

1125
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:29,800
Speaker 1: we're gonna go behind enemy sidelines Withdrew Doherty. Of course,

1126
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:32,440
Speaker 1: then we're gonna flip the script on Jerry Hughes. We're

1127
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:35,839
Speaker 1: gonna do a little Drew's dozen to kick off seven

1128
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Speaker 1: o'clock hour. That's all next right here on Texans All Access.

1129
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Speaker 1: We got one hour now, one hour left to go.

1130
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Speaker 1: Right here on a Friday edition of Texans All Access

1131
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 1: from Indianapolis, kind of John Harris football on outside ode

1132
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:56,240
Speaker 1: of Reporter for your Houston Texans up in Indianapolis, getting

1133
00:47:56,239 --> 00:48:00,919
Speaker 1: ready for the game on Saturday. You've been living under

1134
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 1: a rock and you don't know, Yeah, games on Saturday.

1135
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:04,719
Speaker 1: I don't know why you'd be living under a rock,

1136
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:05,360
Speaker 1: but it happens.

1137
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 2: You could be. You know, I don't know. Beginning of

1138
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 2: the year, you could have been a vacation and could

1139
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 2: been gone. You might not have had access to your phone. Well,

1140
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:14,279
Speaker 2: now you know, Saturday seventeen up.

1141
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 1: In Indianapolis, and so that's where I am doing a

1142
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 1: show in the AKA. I recorded it before we left,

1143
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:21,720
Speaker 1: needed to to make sure we could put two hours

1144
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:26,759
Speaker 1: together uninterrupted, if that's the right way of saying it.

1145
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 1: Congratulations to John Metchi voted twenty twenty three ed Block

1146
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:36,640
Speaker 1: Courage Award winner. I don't think there is any explanation need.

1147
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 1: If you know John Metchi, you know what he has

1148
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 1: overcome to be at this point right now. Recipients of

1149
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 1: the prestigious award are selected by a voted their peers

1150
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 1: to recognize the superb efforts both on and off the

1151
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:54,359
Speaker 1: field and their ability to overcome great adversity. Not only

1152
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:58,359
Speaker 1: did he overcome an ACL, he overcame leukemia. He's got

1153
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 1: himself on the field and I hope, I hope with

1154
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:04,520
Speaker 1: all that I've got that we see him make a

1155
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:08,040
Speaker 1: massive play against the Colts and really get he's got

1156
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 1: his career going. But man, play against the Cults in

1157
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,080
Speaker 1: a game like this would really kind of jump start

1158
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:14,759
Speaker 1: things for number eight. So we're looking forward to that

1159
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 1: on Saturday. Congratulations to one of the best guys you

1160
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:20,839
Speaker 1: are ever going to meet. Now, one of the best

1161
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 1: guys I know is Drew Doherty, and this is his

1162
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 1: segment because we're gonna go Behind Any Sidelines first with

1163
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:31,560
Speaker 1: Lawrence Owen from the Believed Network. He knows the Colts

1164
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:35,239
Speaker 1: inside and out the Colts Law podcast. Here's Drew going

1165
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 1: behind Any Sidelines to kick it off.

1166
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 10: We are joined now by Lawrence Owen. He's the host

1167
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 10: of the Colts Law the belief in Colts podcast. Those

1168
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:45,880
Speaker 10: are two different podcasts, but Lawrence is good to be

1169
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 10: with you. And my goodness, I'm I'm probably beating a

1170
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 10: dead horse locally here, but first time I'm saying it

1171
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:55,320
Speaker 10: with you. It's wild that a year ago at this time,

1172
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:58,320
Speaker 10: the Texans were coming off their thirteenth loss of the season.

1173
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 10: They've been smoked a home by the Jaguars, and they

1174
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:05,800
Speaker 10: had to go to Indianapolis to face another bad team

1175
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:09,839
Speaker 10: in those Colts, And there was so much riding on

1176
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:11,799
Speaker 10: that in such a different way. And now there's so

1177
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 10: much riding on it, and both of these teams are

1178
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:17,399
Speaker 10: winners no matter what happens, and there's so much riding

1179
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:20,799
Speaker 10: on it different How mind bending is that whole three

1180
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 10: hundred and sixty five day year thing in your eyes?

1181
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, I mean you talked about it. I

1182
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 3: mean this time last year it came down to a

1183
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:32,400
Speaker 3: hail Mary right on who was going to win between

1184
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 3: both of these teams, who was going to get first,

1185
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 3: second pick, who was going to end up getting fourth

1186
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:43,120
Speaker 3: or fifth pick possibly, And now we're coming in both

1187
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:45,440
Speaker 3: teams are going to have winning records no matter what.

1188
00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:49,360
Speaker 3: One team has potentially the chance to win the division

1189
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Speaker 3: coming out of this.

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Speaker 4: And in my.

1191
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 3: Opinion, this is kind of a matchup not just determining,

1192
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 3: you know, who's going to most likely make the playoffs,

1193
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:02,319
Speaker 3: but also who could legit julimately take the lead in

1194
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:04,800
Speaker 3: the Coach of the Year awards this season.

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Speaker 10: Yeah. Yeah, And each of these guys has worked wonders.

1196
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:13,360
Speaker 10: Shane Steiking up in Indianapolis, Demiko Ryans here, I know

1197
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 10: Shane Stikeen was a candidate here for the job. I

1198
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:19,280
Speaker 10: think both squads, both franchises got the guy they wanted.

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Speaker 10: They got the guy that was the best fit for them.

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00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 10: How impressive is stike and been and what he's been

1201
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:28,319
Speaker 10: able to kind of assimilate with everything Chris Ballard wanted

1202
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:29,280
Speaker 10: to put in a place.

1203
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Speaker 3: Well, it's really nice in multiple different levels. First off,

1204
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:36,320
Speaker 3: since we've seen Shane stike in here, there's been accountability.

1205
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:39,080
Speaker 3: You know, when there's when a player doesn't perform or

1206
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:41,000
Speaker 3: if he does something on or off the field that

1207
00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:42,440
Speaker 3: is detrimental to the team.

1208
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 4: Gone gone.

1209
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:46,839
Speaker 3: There's no waiting, there nothing, you know, it's just gone there.

1210
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:49,279
Speaker 3: They only settle for a specific type of players that

1211
00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 3: are beneficial to the team and the surrounding you know,

1212
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:56,759
Speaker 3: Indianapolis area, and make the team look good, you know,

1213
00:51:57,040 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 3: on what they do. And then plus he does Shane

1214
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:06,040
Speaker 3: stich and does such a great job of designing his

1215
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:09,839
Speaker 3: game plan and his plays around the strengths of his

1216
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:14,839
Speaker 3: offensive players. It is absolutely amazing. It is refreshing to

1217
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:19,160
Speaker 3: see a team go into a game and you're like,

1218
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:23,400
Speaker 3: I've never seen this play before, right, this is something

1219
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:27,120
Speaker 3: that's new. This isn't Bland anymore. Every game you see

1220
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 3: two or three different plays that you're like, oh wow,

1221
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 3: this is this is something up, up and coming, you know,

1222
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 3: edge of the NFL world, things of that nature. And

1223
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 3: it's really nice to watch.

1224
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:42,759
Speaker 10: You know, because he's the quarterback. Gardner Minshew's gonna get

1225
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 10: naturally the lion's share of attention and I want to

1226
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:46,920
Speaker 10: talk about him in a moment. But the thing that

1227
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:52,000
Speaker 10: really impresses me most about this Colts bunch is that

1228
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:55,479
Speaker 10: defensive front. Four different guys have seven sacks or more.

1229
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:59,280
Speaker 10: They've set the franchise record as a team with sacks

1230
00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:00,960
Speaker 10: this year forty sive and you still got one more

1231
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 10: game to go. That's really impressive considering you got a

1232
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 10: guy I think as a Hall of Famer in Dwight

1233
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:08,759
Speaker 10: Freeney had mathis there and those teams couldn't do what

1234
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 10: this team did. I gotta imagine. Have there been many

1235
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 10: games this season where that defensive line has not been

1236
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:18,320
Speaker 10: much better than the offensive line they faced?

1237
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:23,719
Speaker 3: Well, it depends. I mean, there are some good offensive

1238
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:27,520
Speaker 3: lines that they face. Obviously, you got like the Cleveland Browns, right,

1239
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:32,399
Speaker 3: which is a very very good team, the Baltimore Ravens, right,

1240
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 3: you know, I mean there are good offensive lines out there.

1241
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 3: But really what this defense focuses on is those two

1242
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:43,760
Speaker 3: those two tackles right on the defense, it's all about

1243
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:48,399
Speaker 3: getting up the middle, getting pressure, forcing the offensive line

1244
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:50,279
Speaker 3: to double team the middle so that you leave your

1245
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:54,759
Speaker 3: edges one on one. And it allows for so much

1246
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:58,840
Speaker 3: to happen for this defense, whether it's being able to

1247
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:03,000
Speaker 3: clog the lane with your linebackers because your defensive tackles

1248
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 3: are forcing double teams or that you know, you could

1249
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:10,320
Speaker 3: come off edges and stuff with when he does bulitz,

1250
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:15,719
Speaker 3: which is very very rare fourteen percent, you know, least

1251
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 3: in the league. But when he does, it's such a

1252
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 3: shock that it generally succeeds. So this defense in the

1253
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:24,920
Speaker 3: front for the Indianapolis Colts, it's it's what the defense

1254
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:28,560
Speaker 3: for the Colts is built around. That the defense comes

1255
00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 3: and goes as that defensive line comes and goes.

1256
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Speaker 10: Let's get back to Minshew, and we're talking right now

1257
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 10: with Lawrence Owen. He's a podcaster. He covers the Colts

1258
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:39,160
Speaker 10: and has been doing so for a long long time.

1259
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:42,399
Speaker 10: He's actually a Day one fan since nineteen eighty four

1260
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:44,840
Speaker 10: when they arrived from Baltimore back in the day. But

1261
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 10: Lawrence Garner Minshew, you are not a nine win team

1262
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:50,920
Speaker 10: with one win to go if you don't have effective

1263
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 10: play at the quarterback position. Why has Minshew been so

1264
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:54,479
Speaker 10: effective this year?

1265
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Speaker 3: Oh that's a tough one. So I feel like he

1266
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 3: came in when the they brought him in in the

1267
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:03,880
Speaker 3: off season, it wasn't just to be a mentor for

1268
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:07,760
Speaker 3: whatever rookie, you know, Shane Styke and Chris Baller grabbed

1269
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:10,239
Speaker 3: in the draft. I felt like this was a guy

1270
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:13,120
Speaker 3: they felt like could come in and actually compete for

1271
00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:16,279
Speaker 3: the starting job. Now, as we know, Anthony Richardson won that,

1272
00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:19,200
Speaker 3: but that was just because of his upside. I believe

1273
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:23,120
Speaker 3: Gardner Minshew has been around the league, has been with

1274
00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:26,840
Speaker 3: this system, you know, at Philadelphia with Shane stike and

1275
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:30,320
Speaker 3: he understands the system. He understands what what Shane Stike

1276
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:34,239
Speaker 3: in wants from his players, and I think that goes

1277
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:38,439
Speaker 3: a long way already knowing what's in place and being

1278
00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:41,400
Speaker 3: able to move with it. Plus, I mean, who doesn't

1279
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:45,279
Speaker 3: like Gardner Minshew's you know, total you know personality. It's

1280
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:47,520
Speaker 3: just it's fun to be around, and he brings out

1281
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:49,120
Speaker 3: the best in the players around.

1282
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 10: Him, no doubt, you know. As an asside I used

1283
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:54,279
Speaker 10: to back in the day before I worked for the

1284
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:56,439
Speaker 10: Texans or started with the Texan in two thousand and nine.

1285
00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:59,720
Speaker 10: From five through eight, I was out in Lubbock, Texas

1286
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:03,799
Speaker 10: a sports anchor at the Fox affiliate, but on the

1287
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 10: weekends I was the host of Mike Leach's TV show.

1288
00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:09,360
Speaker 10: So anybody that's good enough to be a quarterback for

1289
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:12,319
Speaker 10: Mike Leach, you got my steal of approval too. And

1290
00:56:12,719 --> 00:56:14,360
Speaker 10: you know, we're both you and I are both familiar

1291
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:17,160
Speaker 10: with Gardner Minshew from his days as a Jacksonville Jaguar

1292
00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:20,400
Speaker 10: and he caused problems back then and was somebody to

1293
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 10: deal with when he was there. So with all that

1294
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:26,240
Speaker 10: in mind, what's his relationship been like on the field

1295
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:28,680
Speaker 10: with Michael Pittman. That's that's been a nice you know,

1296
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Speaker 10: give and take there, hasn't it.

1297
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 9: Oh?

1298
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:34,120
Speaker 3: Absolutely, he has found confidence in Michael Pittman Junior. From

1299
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:37,480
Speaker 3: day one back in training camp, he was getting his confidence.

1300
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:40,080
Speaker 3: Anytime there was a breakdown and a player he was

1301
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:42,800
Speaker 3: under pressure, he just threw it in, you know, number

1302
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:45,799
Speaker 3: eleven's direction and it was like, I know, there's at

1303
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:47,960
Speaker 3: least a sixty percent chance he's coming down with that

1304
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:50,719
Speaker 3: fifty to fifty ball even if he's double covered, right.

1305
00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 3: So that earned his you know, respect and his confidence

1306
00:56:55,719 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 3: early on, which then, of course, you know, translates into

1307
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:02,279
Speaker 3: the season of being that guy as well. Even if

1308
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:05,520
Speaker 3: he's not the first read, he gets into his second

1309
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:08,160
Speaker 3: or third reads, he gets under pressure or something, he

1310
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:12,719
Speaker 3: immediately looks towards number eleven and more often than not,

1311
00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 3: number eleven will deliver for him. So it is a

1312
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 3: nice combination to watch on the field.

1313
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:21,520
Speaker 10: Lawrence Owen hosts Colts Law as well as the Believe

1314
00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:26,640
Speaker 10: in Colts podcasts and Lawrence Jonathan Taylor stats wise has

1315
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:28,960
Speaker 10: not had the season he's probably wanted, Colts fans have

1316
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:33,160
Speaker 10: probably wanted. However, he's had his successes over the years.

1317
00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 10: Against the Houston Texans Week eighteen, What Jonathan Taylor are

1318
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:40,880
Speaker 10: the Texans looking to encounter? What what sort of shape

1319
00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 10: is he in? And how how effect do you think

1320
00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 10: he's going to be and has been over the last

1321
00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 10: week or two.

1322
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:47,800
Speaker 3: Well, he's been riddled with injuries all season, right, Yeah,

1323
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 3: he missed the first part of the season dealing with

1324
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:54,000
Speaker 3: the ankle issue, you know, when he was on the

1325
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:56,360
Speaker 3: pup list. Finally gets back from that, gets to play

1326
00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:59,120
Speaker 3: a few games, get some you know, a little under

1327
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:00,960
Speaker 3: his belt, so that he get some wind in him

1328
00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 3: because he didn't even practice during off seeding and that

1329
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 3: whole nasty spiel that everybody remembers. Then he gets a

1330
00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:09,040
Speaker 3: few games in and then next thing you know, he's

1331
00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:11,160
Speaker 3: got to have thumb surgery, right, and he misses three

1332
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:14,200
Speaker 3: or four games out of that, and so he's just

1333
00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 3: been back a game or two, and I feel like

1334
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:22,240
Speaker 3: he's now getting comfortable fully with you know, his injuries

1335
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:24,120
Speaker 3: and knowing that you know, he's not going to have

1336
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:26,919
Speaker 3: any kind of setbacks with these This is a game,

1337
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:30,120
Speaker 3: I feel like, you know, Week eighteen, last game of

1338
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 3: the year, everything is on the line. Don't expect him

1339
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 3: to hold back whatsoever. I think, you know, he's already

1340
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:38,880
Speaker 3: a tough runner and we all we all know how

1341
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:42,480
Speaker 3: fast he is, so I expect him to always be

1342
00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 3: pushing for that extra two or three yards and the

1343
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:48,080
Speaker 3: Texans defense are going to have to bring plenty of

1344
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:49,840
Speaker 3: people to bring him down because one guy ain't going

1345
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:50,720
Speaker 3: to bring him down by.

1346
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 10: Themselves, right, And what do you make of the offensive

1347
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:54,920
Speaker 10: line that's in front of him this season?

1348
00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 3: That's a that's interesting.

1349
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:00,880
Speaker 9: It depends. Uh So.

1350
00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:03,320
Speaker 3: There has been some injuries there as well, especially at

1351
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:08,600
Speaker 3: right tackle where Braden Smith has missed some time off

1352
00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:12,280
Speaker 3: and on throughout the season due to ankle injuries and

1353
00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:18,480
Speaker 3: knee injury. And now we had a rookie, Blake Freeland

1354
00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:21,120
Speaker 3: come in now this seventh round. Rookie wasn't the best

1355
00:59:21,120 --> 00:59:23,360
Speaker 3: in the world. He was okay in the run, game.

1356
00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 3: But when it comes to pass blocking, he had his problems. Obviously,

1357
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:30,240
Speaker 3: seventh round rookie offensive tackle. You don't expect a whole

1358
00:59:30,240 --> 00:59:32,240
Speaker 3: lot from a guy like that, but I think he

1359
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:34,920
Speaker 3: held up on his own, got a lot of learning

1360
00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:38,480
Speaker 3: experience in Braden Smith came back last week and showed

1361
00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 3: why you know he was that guy. With him on

1362
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:44,959
Speaker 3: the field, it seems like, you know, this offensive line

1363
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:48,680
Speaker 3: is complete, right, and you could see holes open up

1364
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:52,520
Speaker 3: for the running game. You see that less pressure on

1365
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:55,200
Speaker 3: the quarterback, things of that nature. And I feel like

1366
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:58,120
Speaker 3: with all these guys on the field, they are a

1367
00:59:58,120 --> 00:59:59,960
Speaker 3: top five offensive line in the league.

1368
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:04,040
Speaker 10: Yeah, they really, And it's something that Texans know all about.

1369
01:00:04,160 --> 01:00:06,640
Speaker 10: Over the last decade or so, you see him twice

1370
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:09,520
Speaker 10: a year, and there have been some successes, there's been

1371
01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:12,680
Speaker 10: some struggles. Obviously, it's just so weird to be bad.

1372
01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:15,720
Speaker 10: We started this podcast talking about it, and I'm circling

1373
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:19,000
Speaker 10: back to it. Lawrence, what sort of an atmosphere you

1374
01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:23,280
Speaker 10: expect in Saturday night there at Lucas Oil Stadium?

1375
01:00:23,400 --> 01:00:29,240
Speaker 3: Very loud, very very loud. I mean it goes all

1376
01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:30,920
Speaker 3: the way back to the Peyton Manning days, right. He

1377
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:35,960
Speaker 3: kind of groomed the Indianapolis Colts fans at Lucas Oil

1378
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:39,120
Speaker 3: Stadium when to be loud, you know, on defense, when

1379
01:00:39,160 --> 01:00:41,600
Speaker 3: to be dead silent, to hear a pin drop when

1380
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:44,360
Speaker 3: the Colts offense is on the field. He groomed that,

1381
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:46,760
Speaker 3: and it still continues to this day, even though he

1382
01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:51,959
Speaker 3: hasn't been on the field in Indy for what, lord,

1383
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:53,480
Speaker 3: twenty two years now.

1384
01:00:55,120 --> 01:00:56,240
Speaker 4: Or well twelve years?

1385
01:00:56,640 --> 01:00:58,440
Speaker 10: Come on, man, don't make us that old dude.

1386
01:00:58,440 --> 01:00:58,959
Speaker 5: I'm old.

1387
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:01,600
Speaker 3: I feel at feel like it's in twenty two years. No,

1388
01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:05,480
Speaker 3: it's been twelve years since twenty eleven. So yeah, this

1389
01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:10,480
Speaker 3: this is a situation where, I mean, everything's on the line, right,

1390
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:13,440
Speaker 3: you expected this was. If this was NRG, I'd expect

1391
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:15,520
Speaker 3: it to be just as loud there as well, right,

1392
01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:19,320
Speaker 3: I mean, I just I just hope that all the

1393
01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:24,560
Speaker 3: fans can get along. I'm so tired of seeing, oh

1394
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:27,880
Speaker 3: my goodness, where on social media where you see some

1395
01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:31,280
Speaker 3: fans doing things to other fans that you don't like. Now,

1396
01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:34,360
Speaker 3: this is Indiana, it's who's your you know, who's your

1397
01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:37,200
Speaker 3: Hospitality is a real thing. You generally don't have that

1398
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:42,320
Speaker 3: kind of thing, right, So hopefully any Texans fans that

1399
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:45,720
Speaker 3: come into Lucas Oil Stadium can enjoy the game and

1400
01:01:45,800 --> 01:01:48,960
Speaker 3: the atmosphere as much as if maybe not as much

1401
01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:51,360
Speaker 3: as if they were an NRG. But you know, don't

1402
01:01:51,400 --> 01:01:54,480
Speaker 3: have to worry about any setbacks with the other fans

1403
01:01:54,520 --> 01:01:56,840
Speaker 3: of the home team, right right.

1404
01:01:57,160 --> 01:01:59,320
Speaker 10: Well, Lawrence Owen, it was fun talk with you. We

1405
01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:02,480
Speaker 10: really appreciate the time. He hosts the Colts Law as

1406
01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:05,480
Speaker 10: well as the Believe in Colts podcast. He's an expert

1407
01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:07,880
Speaker 10: on the team and it's gonna be a fun one.

1408
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:10,640
Speaker 10: It's never been like this. It's the first primetime game,

1409
01:02:10,720 --> 01:02:13,000
Speaker 10: it's the first non noon game for both teams all

1410
01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:17,080
Speaker 10: season long, and the Texans at least have never been

1411
01:02:17,120 --> 01:02:19,960
Speaker 10: in a win and in or losing go home situation

1412
01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:22,880
Speaker 10: in Week eighteen of the regular season.

1413
01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:23,720
Speaker 9: Isn't that wild?

1414
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:26,160
Speaker 4: That is that Wow?

1415
01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:30,560
Speaker 3: That's unbelievable really for the amount of time that Houston's

1416
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:33,720
Speaker 3: been around. I mean, Colts just had that to.

1417
01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:35,720
Speaker 10: A couple of years ago. With that's for a few years. Yeah,

1418
01:02:35,760 --> 01:02:38,680
Speaker 10: with all right, Lawrence, Well thanks so much again and

1419
01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:40,840
Speaker 10: we'll talk to you again down the line. So good.

1420
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:42,560
Speaker 3: Appreciate you having me on.

1421
01:02:43,200 --> 01:02:46,000
Speaker 1: But Drew does his best work when he's doing a

1422
01:02:46,160 --> 01:02:50,000
Speaker 1: dozen and it gets a little wacky. Even in a

1423
01:02:50,200 --> 01:02:54,920
Speaker 1: serious week like this, a big week, Drew can well

1424
01:02:55,480 --> 01:02:58,200
Speaker 1: get a little perspective just getting a laugh with Drew

1425
01:02:58,240 --> 01:02:58,840
Speaker 1: Doherty and.

1426
01:03:00,520 --> 01:03:00,840
Speaker 2: Hughes.

1427
01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:02,600
Speaker 1: Check this out, Jerry Hughes.

1428
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:04,760
Speaker 10: You're stuck in a ten foot by ten foot room

1429
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:06,480
Speaker 10: and it's filled with food. You've got to eat your

1430
01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:07,880
Speaker 10: way out of it. But what's the food you're going

1431
01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:09,480
Speaker 10: to choose to eat your way out with?

1432
01:03:09,720 --> 01:03:12,800
Speaker 9: Oh my god, favorite food is probably going to be Skittles.

1433
01:03:12,920 --> 01:03:17,040
Speaker 12: Skittles got a nice little fun flavor for each different bite.

1434
01:03:17,080 --> 01:03:19,680
Speaker 10: Hey, speaking of Skittles, weren't you happy a few years

1435
01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:22,040
Speaker 10: back when they changed the green flavor back to lime

1436
01:03:22,120 --> 01:03:24,000
Speaker 10: from what whatever it was was like apple before?

1437
01:03:24,560 --> 01:03:25,000
Speaker 9: Yeah?

1438
01:03:25,120 --> 01:03:27,040
Speaker 12: I mean I was kind of getting used to the

1439
01:03:27,080 --> 01:03:28,720
Speaker 12: apple flavor, you know what I mean, it's been there.

1440
01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:30,120
Speaker 9: For a while. Yeah, you might as well.

1441
01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 12: I was going to say, I secretly might have actually

1442
01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:34,200
Speaker 12: tried a couple apples in between.

1443
01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:35,760
Speaker 10: You know, so you were born of an apple fan?

1444
01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:36,080
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1445
01:03:36,120 --> 01:03:39,160
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, I mean apples now green Granny Smith, I'm

1446
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:40,520
Speaker 12: asking the name any more apples.

1447
01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:43,960
Speaker 10: It's fuji, there's banquet, there's red delicious. We can go

1448
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:45,600
Speaker 10: on and all. That's like a question in itself. I

1449
01:03:45,600 --> 01:03:46,760
Speaker 10: should bring up next week.

1450
01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:48,240
Speaker 9: Yeah, that'd be a good one to see how many

1451
01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:48,960
Speaker 9: apples people know.

1452
01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:51,040
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's a good one I've seen. Yeah, that'd be fun.

1453
01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:54,200
Speaker 10: Which would you rather? Can be the fastest person in

1454
01:03:54,240 --> 01:03:58,280
Speaker 10: the world running okay, but you have offensive bad breath,

1455
01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:03,280
Speaker 10: or you can fly but you have no sense of

1456
01:04:03,560 --> 01:04:04,880
Speaker 10: taste or smell.

1457
01:04:04,960 --> 01:04:06,080
Speaker 9: To at thet some good ones.

1458
01:04:06,840 --> 01:04:10,160
Speaker 12: I had to go with flying, Yeah, just because the

1459
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:12,280
Speaker 12: offensive bad breath. That's a deal breaker if I feel

1460
01:04:12,280 --> 01:04:14,280
Speaker 12: like for anyone, I like, we all get up so

1461
01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:16,400
Speaker 12: early in the morning to make sure we don't.

1462
01:04:16,120 --> 01:04:16,880
Speaker 9: Have that problem.

1463
01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:19,720
Speaker 10: How do you combat bad breath?

1464
01:04:19,840 --> 01:04:22,440
Speaker 9: I was gonna say, I mean chewing gum spirit.

1465
01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:23,920
Speaker 12: Man, you know a lot of lists of ring but

1466
01:04:24,280 --> 01:04:26,000
Speaker 12: you can't carry that stuff around anymore.

1467
01:04:26,120 --> 01:04:27,640
Speaker 9: You know, we used to have the banaka back in

1468
01:04:27,680 --> 01:04:27,960
Speaker 9: the day.

1469
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:30,080
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, right there.

1470
01:04:30,400 --> 01:04:32,400
Speaker 9: Hey, I'm with you.

1471
01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:34,800
Speaker 10: You're speaking of the right clientele here, right, perfect, perfect

1472
01:04:35,040 --> 01:04:36,560
Speaker 10: in the locker room, always showing my age.

1473
01:04:36,560 --> 01:04:37,640
Speaker 9: So I always get reminded.

1474
01:04:37,720 --> 01:04:40,240
Speaker 10: Man, It's it's funny you bring that up, because so

1475
01:04:40,320 --> 01:04:42,000
Speaker 10: I don't I don't remember who it was but somebody

1476
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:45,360
Speaker 10: younger talking about the blue uniforms that the Oilers were wearing,

1477
01:04:45,400 --> 01:04:47,600
Speaker 10: and they said, yeah, Jerry's the only one that remembers

1478
01:04:47,640 --> 01:04:50,480
Speaker 10: that you were well that they were well gone before

1479
01:04:50,480 --> 01:04:52,280
Speaker 10: you'd gotten into the league. But you remember growing that

1480
01:04:52,320 --> 01:04:52,880
Speaker 10: up in Houston.

1481
01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:55,560
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I remember being uh Houstonian. We used to

1482
01:04:55,600 --> 01:04:56,280
Speaker 9: watch those guys.

1483
01:04:56,360 --> 01:04:59,480
Speaker 12: I remember where we were watching them beat the Buffalo

1484
01:04:59,520 --> 01:05:02,080
Speaker 12: Bills from they make that first move to Tennessee.

1485
01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:03,000
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, so yeah.

1486
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:05,560
Speaker 12: I mean I had the old school starter set up

1487
01:05:05,840 --> 01:05:08,440
Speaker 12: more and Moon fresh out the box though, the little

1488
01:05:08,440 --> 01:05:10,520
Speaker 12: helmet on and everything. I was dressing the nines back

1489
01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:12,280
Speaker 12: in the day. Man, little eight year old men, you

1490
01:05:12,280 --> 01:05:13,440
Speaker 12: couldn't tell me anything.

1491
01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:16,560
Speaker 10: Couldn't tell you anything. Hey, as a pass rusher, you've

1492
01:05:16,600 --> 01:05:19,040
Speaker 10: seen the stuff of warn Moon over the years, as

1493
01:05:19,080 --> 01:05:20,439
Speaker 10: your appreciation for him only grown.

1494
01:05:20,640 --> 01:05:21,240
Speaker 9: Oh absolutely.

1495
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:22,960
Speaker 12: I mean just not only how long he was able

1496
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:25,160
Speaker 12: to play, but just to stay healthy. I mean, you

1497
01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:28,000
Speaker 12: got big nasty guys like myself coming at you, trying

1498
01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:29,840
Speaker 12: to take the ball away, trying to hit you as

1499
01:05:29,880 --> 01:05:32,120
Speaker 12: hard as possible, just because we hadn't seen you all day.

1500
01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:34,520
Speaker 12: You know, just want to be nice and introduce ourselves

1501
01:05:34,600 --> 01:05:36,760
Speaker 12: but I mean for any quarterback who can play that

1502
01:05:36,800 --> 01:05:38,440
Speaker 12: well and do with that kind of punishment and be

1503
01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:41,000
Speaker 12: successful for those many years. Man, I got tip my

1504
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:43,320
Speaker 12: hat to you, because that's a gladiator sport right there.

1505
01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:47,520
Speaker 10: Yeah, and the rules protecting quarterbacks not as generous back

1506
01:05:47,560 --> 01:05:50,880
Speaker 10: then as maybe they are did most overused emoji is

1507
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:53,440
Speaker 10: what for me? Or just in general?

1508
01:05:53,640 --> 01:05:56,880
Speaker 12: Oh my goodness, Probably the most overlooked the moost you

1509
01:05:56,920 --> 01:05:57,840
Speaker 12: would be the one with.

1510
01:05:57,800 --> 01:05:59,640
Speaker 9: The hands over the eyes. I still don't know what

1511
01:05:59,640 --> 01:06:00,000
Speaker 9: that means.

1512
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:01,920
Speaker 12: I don't know if you're laughing, or if you're laughing

1513
01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:04,120
Speaker 12: together or are we embarrassed together.

1514
01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:05,920
Speaker 9: I have a lot of questions about that emoji.

1515
01:06:06,080 --> 01:06:06,800
Speaker 10: That's a good one.

1516
01:06:06,840 --> 01:06:08,560
Speaker 9: I mean, there's there's there's just so much going on

1517
01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:09,760
Speaker 9: with that one picture right there.

1518
01:06:09,760 --> 01:06:10,840
Speaker 10: Who sends you that the most?

1519
01:06:10,880 --> 01:06:13,280
Speaker 9: Oh my god? It would probably be not only my wife,

1520
01:06:13,360 --> 01:06:14,000
Speaker 9: but probably the.

1521
01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:17,080
Speaker 12: Guys on the team DELI guys, Okay, Normally I'll say

1522
01:06:17,120 --> 01:06:20,000
Speaker 12: something and it's just right after that, I'll get that emoji.

1523
01:06:20,080 --> 01:06:20,600
Speaker 5: Don't wait.

1524
01:06:20,680 --> 01:06:22,840
Speaker 4: So it was that good? Am I in the am

1525
01:06:22,840 --> 01:06:23,720
Speaker 4: I in the clear? I?

1526
01:06:24,080 --> 01:06:26,960
Speaker 9: Like I said, you gotta follow up with any emoji.

1527
01:06:27,040 --> 01:06:29,000
Speaker 9: You just can't leave it out there. It's not a hieroglyphic.

1528
01:06:29,120 --> 01:06:30,760
Speaker 10: Have you brought this up with them? Like, what's this mean?

1529
01:06:30,840 --> 01:06:31,080
Speaker 2: Guys?

1530
01:06:31,120 --> 01:06:32,800
Speaker 10: Or all the time they say.

1531
01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:35,040
Speaker 9: They just say the emojis mean what they mean?

1532
01:06:35,240 --> 01:06:36,440
Speaker 10: Oh man, they're keeping it from you.

1533
01:06:36,600 --> 01:06:38,160
Speaker 9: That's what I said. What does that mean?

1534
01:06:38,240 --> 01:06:39,720
Speaker 10: And for the record, I don't know what it means either.

1535
01:06:39,760 --> 01:06:42,120
Speaker 9: So I'm not I'm not the only one in that boat.

1536
01:06:42,200 --> 01:06:45,439
Speaker 10: No, no, no, I'm good wild animal wise or train

1537
01:06:45,480 --> 01:06:48,760
Speaker 10: animal wise. You can have any animal in the world

1538
01:06:48,920 --> 01:06:51,520
Speaker 10: as a pet. It's never gonna go crazy. It's gonna

1539
01:06:51,560 --> 01:06:53,040
Speaker 10: be fine. It's not gonna hurt anybody.

1540
01:06:53,240 --> 01:06:55,959
Speaker 9: What are you gonna choose a bear? What type?

1541
01:06:56,360 --> 01:06:58,840
Speaker 12: Oh man, I want one of those big brown bears. Yeah, yeah,

1542
01:06:59,120 --> 01:07:01,680
Speaker 12: just walking on it, sitting next to me. I mean,

1543
01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:03,880
Speaker 12: because you always see them. I don't want anything to

1544
01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:05,800
Speaker 12: sneak up on you or you don't know it's there.

1545
01:07:06,160 --> 01:07:07,760
Speaker 12: I want the big old bear that can stand on

1546
01:07:07,760 --> 01:07:10,080
Speaker 12: his two legs, big old bear, hug when you see them,

1547
01:07:10,640 --> 01:07:11,479
Speaker 12: and then you have fun.

1548
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:13,400
Speaker 10: Yeah, you don't have to worry about anything bad happening.

1549
01:07:13,480 --> 01:07:15,480
Speaker 9: No, I mean, nothing could take down the bear, Like

1550
01:07:15,520 --> 01:07:16,360
Speaker 9: they say nothing.

1551
01:07:16,400 --> 01:07:17,080
Speaker 10: Do you got any pets?

1552
01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:18,480
Speaker 9: Of your own right now. Two dogs.

1553
01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:20,840
Speaker 12: I'm a dog guy, so I got two German shepherds,

1554
01:07:20,840 --> 01:07:25,040
Speaker 12: two girls, So yeah, I'm always messing with them. Love dogs,

1555
01:07:25,080 --> 01:07:27,080
Speaker 12: I mean they're so sure mas best friends for a reason,

1556
01:07:27,120 --> 01:07:29,920
Speaker 12: right of course. Yeah, But I mean other other than that,

1557
01:07:29,960 --> 01:07:31,120
Speaker 12: any other animal I would leave.

1558
01:07:31,120 --> 01:07:32,040
Speaker 9: I would love to have a bear.

1559
01:07:32,160 --> 01:07:34,400
Speaker 10: And German shepherds are kind of bearish, you know, like

1560
01:07:34,440 --> 01:07:35,000
Speaker 10: in appearance.

1561
01:07:35,480 --> 01:07:37,160
Speaker 12: I mean, I've never been that close to bed, but

1562
01:07:37,160 --> 01:07:39,400
Speaker 12: I feel like you're right in the appearance, hopefully with

1563
01:07:39,440 --> 01:07:41,720
Speaker 12: the behavior. You know, you always want to be around you.

1564
01:07:41,760 --> 01:07:43,280
Speaker 12: Maybe they love to protect us.

1565
01:07:43,480 --> 01:07:45,120
Speaker 10: And I'm no dog act. I mean, I've got two

1566
01:07:45,120 --> 01:07:48,040
Speaker 10: dogs too. From what I have encountered seeing them out

1567
01:07:48,080 --> 01:07:50,560
Speaker 10: in the workforce with you know, the police and all

1568
01:07:50,600 --> 01:07:52,960
Speaker 10: that stuff, German Shepherds are like some of the smartest too.

1569
01:07:52,960 --> 01:07:55,040
Speaker 10: They do calculus and chores.

1570
01:07:54,760 --> 01:07:57,640
Speaker 12: And stuff like I think I haven't trained my dog

1571
01:07:57,680 --> 01:07:59,520
Speaker 12: at all, and they never leave my side, and I'm like, man,

1572
01:07:59,520 --> 01:08:00,000
Speaker 12: thank you guys.

1573
01:08:00,280 --> 01:08:00,800
Speaker 10: Good dogs.

1574
01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:02,200
Speaker 9: Yeah, I was gonna say, they love the kids, so

1575
01:08:02,200 --> 01:08:03,080
Speaker 9: they make it easy for us.

1576
01:08:03,480 --> 01:08:05,160
Speaker 10: Now do they snuggle on the couch or you keep

1577
01:08:05,200 --> 01:08:06,000
Speaker 10: them on the ground.

1578
01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:08,200
Speaker 9: Or on the ground? Yeah, I can't do the you're.

1579
01:08:08,120 --> 01:08:11,280
Speaker 10: A responsible dog owner because my little dogs they're also

1580
01:08:11,360 --> 01:08:14,240
Speaker 10: German dogs, but they're docks and nice. Yeah, they hang

1581
01:08:14,240 --> 01:08:16,800
Speaker 10: it on the couch. First thing you do when your

1582
01:08:16,840 --> 01:08:20,559
Speaker 10: eyes open in the morning, when you wake up, I.

1583
01:08:20,479 --> 01:08:22,440
Speaker 9: Get an alert to order Storebucks.

1584
01:08:23,200 --> 01:08:24,920
Speaker 10: You need it. What's the order?

1585
01:08:26,160 --> 01:08:28,000
Speaker 9: A Vincy peppermint mocha.

1586
01:08:28,080 --> 01:08:28,880
Speaker 10: You gotta get Venti.

1587
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:31,759
Speaker 12: But it is it's a long drive and it's about

1588
01:08:31,880 --> 01:08:33,640
Speaker 12: forty five minute commutes, so it kind of helps me

1589
01:08:33,720 --> 01:08:35,800
Speaker 12: kind of wake up there peppermint moocha.

1590
01:08:35,880 --> 01:08:36,639
Speaker 9: Got to ask my wife.

1591
01:08:36,720 --> 01:08:38,760
Speaker 12: She kind of introduced that drink to me a couple

1592
01:08:38,800 --> 01:08:41,240
Speaker 12: of years back and it has yet to change.

1593
01:08:40,960 --> 01:08:42,360
Speaker 10: And it's stuck. That's a good thing.

1594
01:08:42,640 --> 01:08:45,160
Speaker 12: Yeah, And like it's crazy because I opened my eyes

1595
01:08:45,200 --> 01:08:47,720
Speaker 12: and it's it's almost like Siri knows me. So my

1596
01:08:47,960 --> 01:08:50,479
Speaker 12: eyes open, phone lights up and it's like you want

1597
01:08:50,479 --> 01:08:52,880
Speaker 12: to place an order and sometimes I'm like no, but

1598
01:08:53,280 --> 01:08:54,360
Speaker 12: since you ask, you know.

1599
01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:56,840
Speaker 10: And it all comes back to the good breath thing,

1600
01:08:56,920 --> 01:09:00,320
Speaker 10: the peppermint fighting the coffee breath. Yeah, you see, I

1601
01:09:00,400 --> 01:09:02,120
Speaker 10: like it. So what's going on on this forty five

1602
01:09:02,200 --> 01:09:04,559
Speaker 10: minute commit commute? Are you talking to people? You listening

1603
01:09:04,960 --> 01:09:06,240
Speaker 10: combo of both what's going on?

1604
01:09:06,400 --> 01:09:10,240
Speaker 12: Oh man, it's a combination of between podcasts listening every

1605
01:09:10,280 --> 01:09:13,080
Speaker 12: now and their little NPR news and then just music,

1606
01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:16,839
Speaker 12: you know, just depending on today. Today was a throwback.

1607
01:09:16,880 --> 01:09:19,960
Speaker 12: Even though it's not Thursday, it's Thursday for the week.

1608
01:09:19,920 --> 01:09:21,920
Speaker 10: It feels like it because the game is on a Saturday.

1609
01:09:21,920 --> 01:09:22,599
Speaker 10: It'said of a Sunday.

1610
01:09:22,680 --> 01:09:24,439
Speaker 12: Yes, we'll throw back Thursday. So I'm hitting some of

1611
01:09:24,479 --> 01:09:27,200
Speaker 12: the oldies. I mean, some Monica three to O W.

1612
01:09:27,439 --> 01:09:29,320
Speaker 12: Might throw in some fat Pad. I mean, it's just

1613
01:09:29,360 --> 01:09:32,120
Speaker 12: whatever it's on that playlist, and we're just man, it's

1614
01:09:32,160 --> 01:09:34,360
Speaker 12: a blast from the past. You know, we all been

1615
01:09:34,360 --> 01:09:36,880
Speaker 12: listening to so much music you get you get it

1616
01:09:36,920 --> 01:09:39,000
Speaker 12: so much throughout the year. Anytime you can go back

1617
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:41,040
Speaker 12: to the two thousand and ones, you know, the ninety

1618
01:09:41,120 --> 01:09:43,920
Speaker 12: nine is the late nineties tough.

1619
01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:46,120
Speaker 10: It is good stuff. I'm never going to pretend to

1620
01:09:46,160 --> 01:09:49,519
Speaker 10: pass myself off as a fat Pad expert, but tops

1621
01:09:49,560 --> 01:09:52,400
Speaker 10: Drop we play that in between innings at my son's

1622
01:09:52,400 --> 01:09:53,040
Speaker 10: baseball game.

1623
01:09:53,160 --> 01:09:53,760
Speaker 4: So love that.

1624
01:09:53,800 --> 01:09:55,200
Speaker 10: And the hits always follow after.

1625
01:09:55,280 --> 01:09:57,360
Speaker 9: I mean, how could they not. The kids know the truth. Yeah,

1626
01:09:57,479 --> 01:09:59,080
Speaker 9: they know their sound legend when they hear it.

1627
01:09:59,080 --> 01:10:03,280
Speaker 10: It's the best best. Okay, favorite place you've ever visited

1628
01:10:03,439 --> 01:10:05,080
Speaker 10: is what or where?

1629
01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:08,200
Speaker 12: Gosh, you know, I don't travel much, so I'm gonna

1630
01:10:08,200 --> 01:10:11,120
Speaker 12: throw out Fiji. It's probably the favorite place I've ever visited.

1631
01:10:11,120 --> 01:10:13,240
Speaker 12: It was an island, so of course you can have

1632
01:10:13,240 --> 01:10:14,519
Speaker 12: so much fun on the island. When you're on an

1633
01:10:14,560 --> 01:10:17,680
Speaker 12: island time. I really got to understand the meaning of that.

1634
01:10:18,120 --> 01:10:21,519
Speaker 12: Waking up and joining a little mimosa with breakfast, with

1635
01:10:21,560 --> 01:10:24,519
Speaker 12: a little corona with or with lunch. We can still

1636
01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:27,200
Speaker 12: I was gonna say, I mean the way they say

1637
01:10:27,200 --> 01:10:28,240
Speaker 12: it's five o'clock so much.

1638
01:10:28,360 --> 01:10:30,680
Speaker 9: I want to say. Island time was incredible, man, it was.

1639
01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:32,400
Speaker 12: It was great just to kind of get out of

1640
01:10:32,479 --> 01:10:35,200
Speaker 12: the US, not worry about anything but just watching the

1641
01:10:35,240 --> 01:10:36,120
Speaker 12: sun rise and set.

1642
01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:36,800
Speaker 9: That's about it.

1643
01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:41,800
Speaker 10: Favorite nickname is what oh man? Because you have a few,

1644
01:10:41,840 --> 01:10:42,840
Speaker 10: don't you?

1645
01:10:42,840 --> 01:10:43,200
Speaker 4: You know what?

1646
01:10:43,240 --> 01:10:45,439
Speaker 9: Everyone says I have a few. I don't know if

1647
01:10:45,600 --> 01:10:46,080
Speaker 9: I do.

1648
01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:48,040
Speaker 12: I've heard some of the guys call me Gary from

1649
01:10:48,080 --> 01:10:50,519
Speaker 12: back in the day. I know a college is that

1650
01:10:50,600 --> 01:10:53,000
Speaker 12: just a mess with you? I think so, like a

1651
01:10:53,040 --> 01:10:55,439
Speaker 12: little play on Jerry, but instead of being Jerry on

1652
01:10:55,439 --> 01:10:57,000
Speaker 12: the field, you turn to get I know, the college

1653
01:10:57,000 --> 01:10:59,040
Speaker 12: guys will call me hulk or something like that. Just

1654
01:10:59,400 --> 01:11:01,040
Speaker 12: I guess I just if that switch. I think that

1655
01:11:01,120 --> 01:11:03,519
Speaker 12: might be the biggest thing for people is the the

1656
01:11:03,560 --> 01:11:06,320
Speaker 12: on the off field. The universe is on the field.

1657
01:11:06,320 --> 01:11:09,120
Speaker 12: They don't see a correlation between the two guys. But

1658
01:11:09,200 --> 01:11:11,760
Speaker 12: I'm like, you can't be the same person on and off.

1659
01:11:11,800 --> 01:11:14,360
Speaker 12: You gotta be able to let your hair down somewhere.

1660
01:11:14,280 --> 01:11:17,360
Speaker 10: You unquestionably can't. I mean, we sitting in your seat

1661
01:11:17,439 --> 01:11:19,880
Speaker 10: last week was Christian Harris, and he said, yeah, a

1662
01:11:19,920 --> 01:11:21,519
Speaker 10: lot of people call me angry man. He's like, I

1663
01:11:21,520 --> 01:11:23,200
Speaker 10: don't think I'm an angry man. I was like, yeah,

1664
01:11:23,240 --> 01:11:25,040
Speaker 10: we're having a nice conversation here, but when you're on

1665
01:11:25,040 --> 01:11:27,200
Speaker 10: the field, you gotta be you gotta be some angry Yeah, not.

1666
01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:30,040
Speaker 12: To be I mean you're here there for what sixty minutes.

1667
01:11:30,080 --> 01:11:32,600
Speaker 12: You get to have fun knocking people's heads around. So

1668
01:11:32,640 --> 01:11:34,840
Speaker 12: I mean, if that doesn't allow you to kind of

1669
01:11:34,840 --> 01:11:37,080
Speaker 12: just let your hair down and be yourself, I mean,

1670
01:11:37,120 --> 01:11:39,400
Speaker 12: I don't know what else does, especially with this great game.

1671
01:11:39,320 --> 01:11:41,639
Speaker 10: In twenty twenty four. I would like to.

1672
01:11:42,640 --> 01:11:45,400
Speaker 12: Do new things. We talked about this the other day. Yeah,

1673
01:11:45,439 --> 01:11:48,160
Speaker 12: I wanna do new things. Travel more, try new restaurants

1674
01:11:48,200 --> 01:11:50,439
Speaker 12: here in the city. We're always opening up good foods

1675
01:11:50,720 --> 01:11:53,519
Speaker 12: and I'm constantly looking to find some places to go

1676
01:11:53,680 --> 01:11:55,559
Speaker 12: just to see what the well we got. We always

1677
01:11:55,560 --> 01:11:58,400
Speaker 12: got something new. The foods here is always great, so

1678
01:11:58,439 --> 01:12:01,080
Speaker 12: that that's it for me. Try new feels, see new things,

1679
01:12:01,240 --> 01:12:01,960
Speaker 12: do new things.

1680
01:12:02,080 --> 01:12:04,519
Speaker 10: You will never run out of phenomenal places to eat

1681
01:12:04,600 --> 01:12:05,160
Speaker 10: in this town.

1682
01:12:05,200 --> 01:12:06,680
Speaker 9: And that's what I love. That's what I love, and

1683
01:12:06,680 --> 01:12:07,240
Speaker 9: I can't wait.

1684
01:12:07,560 --> 01:12:09,760
Speaker 10: Can't wait, Jerry, Great new things on the way for you,

1685
01:12:09,840 --> 01:12:11,840
Speaker 10: Jerry Hughes. We always appreciate the time. It's always good

1686
01:12:11,840 --> 01:12:13,519
Speaker 10: to be with you, my friend. Thanks for having me

1687
01:12:13,520 --> 01:12:14,680
Speaker 10: man always.

1688
01:12:15,360 --> 01:12:17,720
Speaker 1: No thank you, Jerry Hughes. And of course Drew do

1689
01:12:17,720 --> 01:12:20,320
Speaker 1: already and Lawrence Own we get back. I got to

1690
01:12:20,360 --> 01:12:22,760
Speaker 1: pick these games now. It's a little tricky to do

1691
01:12:22,800 --> 01:12:24,800
Speaker 1: this because I don't have all the information when I'm

1692
01:12:24,800 --> 01:12:26,439
Speaker 1: recording the show, but I'm gonna do my best to

1693
01:12:26,479 --> 01:12:30,080
Speaker 1: give you winners against the spread and straight up for fun,

1694
01:12:30,320 --> 01:12:33,200
Speaker 1: for fun next right here on Texas All Access. All right,

1695
01:12:33,240 --> 01:12:36,400
Speaker 1: it's time to dance Week eighteen in the NFL, and

1696
01:12:36,439 --> 01:12:38,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick them all straight up against the spread

1697
01:12:38,320 --> 01:12:39,519
Speaker 1: for fun for fun.

1698
01:12:39,640 --> 01:12:42,040
Speaker 2: I am John Harris Football and on outsideline reporter for.

1699
01:12:42,160 --> 01:12:45,840
Speaker 1: Your Houston Texans, and we've got we gotta go because

1700
01:12:45,840 --> 01:12:48,360
Speaker 1: we got to hear Tamiko reloaded in our next segment,

1701
01:12:48,439 --> 01:12:51,760
Speaker 1: so we gotta fly fastest three and a half ish

1702
01:12:51,960 --> 01:12:54,800
Speaker 1: minutes you're gonna find breaking down these games that are

1703
01:12:54,800 --> 01:12:57,519
Speaker 1: happening this weekend. Full slate, starting with Saturday all the

1704
01:12:57,520 --> 01:12:58,479
Speaker 1: way through Sunday night.

1705
01:12:58,720 --> 01:13:00,880
Speaker 2: So here we go.

1706
01:13:01,200 --> 01:13:03,640
Speaker 1: Steelers taking on the Ravens Pittsburgh favored by four on

1707
01:13:03,680 --> 01:13:06,080
Speaker 1: the road. I feel like Steelers are gonna get a win.

1708
01:13:06,080 --> 01:13:09,760
Speaker 1: They're gonna eat one out, but the Ravens are gonna

1709
01:13:09,760 --> 01:13:11,639
Speaker 1: get a cover. They're gonna get inside that four. Stuwpontley

1710
01:13:11,640 --> 01:13:13,880
Speaker 1: I think is gonna play pretty well, and the Ravens

1711
01:13:13,920 --> 01:13:16,160
Speaker 1: don't want to get beaten twice, so I think they'll

1712
01:13:16,200 --> 01:13:17,680
Speaker 1: play hard in this one.

1713
01:13:17,840 --> 01:13:19,320
Speaker 2: Even though they got everything sewn up.

1714
01:13:19,360 --> 01:13:22,559
Speaker 1: So Steelers win it, Ravens cover, get inside the four.

1715
01:13:22,640 --> 01:13:25,080
Speaker 1: The Bucks are taking on the Panthers. The Bucks win,

1716
01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:27,960
Speaker 1: they win a division, they lose. They're out Tampa Bays

1717
01:13:27,960 --> 01:13:30,519
Speaker 1: favored by four and a half at Carolina Bucks win,

1718
01:13:30,800 --> 01:13:35,040
Speaker 1: Bucks cover Browns Bengals the Browns playing a bunch of backups.

1719
01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:37,200
Speaker 1: The Bengals while they're out of the playoffs to Cincinnati's

1720
01:13:37,200 --> 01:13:40,200
Speaker 1: favored by seven's give Cincinnati to win. The Browns are

1721
01:13:40,200 --> 01:13:44,400
Speaker 1: gonna they'll keep it close, not winning seven. So Bengals win,

1722
01:13:44,479 --> 01:13:46,080
Speaker 1: they get to cover it. They'll finish nine and eight.

1723
01:13:46,360 --> 01:13:49,800
Speaker 1: Vikings out of It, Lions in it. Lions got hosed

1724
01:13:49,880 --> 01:13:52,640
Speaker 1: last week. Lions are three and a half points favorites.

1725
01:13:53,200 --> 01:13:55,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give them the win and the cover over

1726
01:13:55,920 --> 01:13:58,960
Speaker 1: the Vikings in Detroit. Jets Patriots both teams out of

1727
01:13:58,960 --> 01:14:01,479
Speaker 1: It's in New England, New England favored by two. Patriots

1728
01:14:01,479 --> 01:14:03,479
Speaker 1: seemingly always beat the Jets, but I'm going with the

1729
01:14:03,520 --> 01:14:05,840
Speaker 1: Jets for this one reason. They win this game, they'll

1730
01:14:05,840 --> 01:14:10,679
Speaker 1: finish seven to ten, just like last year. So Jets

1731
01:14:10,720 --> 01:14:13,760
Speaker 1: win and I get two points. So I'm taking the

1732
01:14:13,840 --> 01:14:17,960
Speaker 1: Jets to win and to cover. Falcons and Saints, big

1733
01:14:18,439 --> 01:14:22,360
Speaker 1: big one. Now, these teams need help. But if they

1734
01:14:22,360 --> 01:14:24,839
Speaker 1: get some help with the Panthers and then the Falcons

1735
01:14:24,880 --> 01:14:28,519
Speaker 1: win over the Saints, well then the Falcons represent the

1736
01:14:28,560 --> 01:14:30,320
Speaker 1: NFC South. But if they don't get any help with

1737
01:14:30,320 --> 01:14:31,960
Speaker 1: the Panthers, it won't matter. If Saints are playing at

1738
01:14:31,960 --> 01:14:34,160
Speaker 1: home for three and a half point favorites games at noon,

1739
01:14:34,280 --> 01:14:37,960
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be a bitter, bitter struggle. I think

1740
01:14:38,040 --> 01:14:40,160
Speaker 1: the Saints are the better football team, especially at home.

1741
01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:43,560
Speaker 1: They'll win this by a touchdown twenty four to seventeen.

1742
01:14:43,840 --> 01:14:46,360
Speaker 1: Saints win and cover that three and a half. Jaguars

1743
01:14:47,080 --> 01:14:50,719
Speaker 1: Titans don't know the status Trevor Lawrence. He's limited practice.

1744
01:14:50,960 --> 01:14:52,800
Speaker 1: CJ bethrw Win an injury at poort, but he was

1745
01:14:52,840 --> 01:14:57,120
Speaker 1: a full go. I really would like to see the

1746
01:14:57,160 --> 01:15:03,639
Speaker 1: Titans get the upset. However, I don't think it's gonna happen.

1747
01:15:03,640 --> 01:15:05,320
Speaker 2: I think Jacks are gonna go get the win. They'll

1748
01:15:05,320 --> 01:15:10,120
Speaker 2: win the AFC South in Nashville, but it's gonna be

1749
01:15:10,280 --> 01:15:12,080
Speaker 2: within the three Jackson's Fair by three and a half.

1750
01:15:12,120 --> 01:15:14,160
Speaker 2: I think the Titans will get inside that.

1751
01:15:14,200 --> 01:15:17,799
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be like twenty to seventeen, seventeen

1752
01:15:17,800 --> 01:15:19,599
Speaker 1: to fourteen, something like that. I don't think either team

1753
01:15:19,640 --> 01:15:21,880
Speaker 1: scores a ton, and we'll see what the Tits are

1754
01:15:21,920 --> 01:15:22,160
Speaker 1: gonna do.

1755
01:15:22,160 --> 01:15:23,840
Speaker 6: A quarterback with Will Levis or round Tanneer.

1756
01:15:23,840 --> 01:15:25,320
Speaker 1: I would love to see it be Tannehill because then

1757
01:15:25,360 --> 01:15:26,639
Speaker 1: I think the Titans have a shot.

1758
01:15:26,680 --> 01:15:27,720
Speaker 2: Seahawks Cardinals.

1759
01:15:27,880 --> 01:15:31,760
Speaker 1: Seattle's favored about two and a half at Arizona, and

1760
01:15:31,800 --> 01:15:33,040
Speaker 1: the Seahawks are still in it.

1761
01:15:33,120 --> 01:15:36,599
Speaker 2: They win and the Packers lose, they go to the playoffs.

1762
01:15:36,600 --> 01:15:40,000
Speaker 1: I think Seattle's gonna win this one narrow league right

1763
01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:40,880
Speaker 1: at the number two.

1764
01:15:41,040 --> 01:15:42,679
Speaker 2: So we'll give Seattle to cover.

1765
01:15:42,520 --> 01:15:45,679
Speaker 1: Because it's minus two and a half. Packers playing the Bears.

1766
01:15:45,680 --> 01:15:47,599
Speaker 1: The Packers will not lose US one, even the Bears

1767
01:15:47,640 --> 01:15:49,120
Speaker 1: are playing better. The Packers win, they'll go to the

1768
01:15:49,120 --> 01:15:52,559
Speaker 1: playoffs and they'll cover the three Chiefs Chargers. Chiefs are in,

1769
01:15:52,640 --> 01:15:55,439
Speaker 1: can't change their seating, Chargers probably just playing out the

1770
01:15:55,439 --> 01:15:57,200
Speaker 1: string Charges a fair by three and a half. As

1771
01:15:57,200 --> 01:15:59,840
Speaker 1: a results, go Chargers to win, Chiefs to cover. Bro

1772
01:16:00,160 --> 01:16:02,920
Speaker 1: Goes Raiders Raiders fair by three at home. I think

1773
01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:05,680
Speaker 1: that Aid and O'Connor will get it done. They'll win

1774
01:16:05,760 --> 01:16:07,960
Speaker 1: that by four or more so, winning a cover for

1775
01:16:08,040 --> 01:16:11,240
Speaker 1: the Raiders. Eagles Giants. Eagles will win that by a touchdown.

1776
01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:14,840
Speaker 1: Rams Niners, San Francisco playing at home, not really playing

1777
01:16:14,840 --> 01:16:17,519
Speaker 1: for much, neither team actually playing for much. Forty nine

1778
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:20,080
Speaker 1: Ers will win and cover. Cowboys will hammer the Commanders

1779
01:16:20,120 --> 01:16:22,920
Speaker 1: by more than thirteen and the Bills will go down

1780
01:16:22,920 --> 01:16:24,520
Speaker 1: to Miami and beat the Dolphins.

1781
01:16:24,800 --> 01:16:26,800
Speaker 2: There you go, there's your prediction, straight up and against

1782
01:16:26,840 --> 01:16:27,400
Speaker 2: the spread.

1783
01:16:27,680 --> 01:16:31,280
Speaker 1: Coming up next to Miko reloaded right here in Texans

1784
01:16:31,320 --> 01:16:34,280
Speaker 1: All Access. We all want final segment of this edision

1785
01:16:34,400 --> 01:16:38,839
Speaker 1: of Texans All Access from the hundred Texans Radio Studio

1786
01:16:38,960 --> 01:16:42,120
Speaker 1: and Indianapolis. Appreciate you guys being with me. John Harris,

1787
01:16:42,160 --> 01:16:45,800
Speaker 1: football analyst, sideline reporter. There's no better way to get

1788
01:16:45,840 --> 01:16:50,680
Speaker 1: ready for this Colts game then a little Demico Ryans reloaded.

1789
01:16:50,720 --> 01:16:53,200
Speaker 1: We talked to Demico earlier this week to talk about

1790
01:16:53,240 --> 01:16:56,400
Speaker 1: the win over the Titans and looking forward to taking

1791
01:16:56,479 --> 01:16:57,360
Speaker 1: on the Colts.

1792
01:16:57,400 --> 01:16:59,920
Speaker 6: Take a listen, and here in the Hundai Texans Radio

1793
01:17:00,000 --> 01:17:03,360
Speaker 6: studio with us as head coach Tamiko Ryan's huge week.

1794
01:17:03,400 --> 01:17:06,439
Speaker 6: We appreciate the time. Coach, congratulations on beating the Titans

1795
01:17:06,439 --> 01:17:09,400
Speaker 6: and having this big opportunity. You always say you earn

1796
01:17:09,479 --> 01:17:11,360
Speaker 6: the right for these things, and you guys certainly have

1797
01:17:11,560 --> 01:17:11,960
Speaker 6: for sure.

1798
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:14,720
Speaker 7: You know, it's an exciting moment and our guys have

1799
01:17:14,880 --> 01:17:16,960
Speaker 7: earned this moment. And that's what I'm most proud of,

1800
01:17:17,120 --> 01:17:19,400
Speaker 7: right to be in this position because of the work

1801
01:17:19,600 --> 01:17:22,840
Speaker 7: the sacrifices that they made, the work that they put

1802
01:17:22,840 --> 01:17:25,639
Speaker 7: in to have us in this position. Man, it's it's

1803
01:17:25,640 --> 01:17:28,400
Speaker 7: a huge honor to be able to still be vying

1804
01:17:28,520 --> 01:17:31,040
Speaker 7: for an opportunity at this point in the season. So

1805
01:17:31,200 --> 01:17:34,400
Speaker 7: excited for the opportunity, excited for our guys experience.

1806
01:17:33,960 --> 01:17:37,360
Speaker 1: It coach every single week, new new, new, new newt

1807
01:17:37,439 --> 01:17:40,160
Speaker 1: You get routine of doing it at nut also record

1808
01:17:40,280 --> 01:17:42,320
Speaker 1: scratch Saturday at seven.

1809
01:17:43,040 --> 01:17:44,719
Speaker 6: I know it's nineteen hours difference.

1810
01:17:44,760 --> 01:17:46,800
Speaker 1: It doesn't sound like a whole lot, but in your

1811
01:17:46,840 --> 01:17:49,600
Speaker 1: world that's a massive difference. How do you kind of

1812
01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:52,240
Speaker 1: go about making the changes of doing things a day early.

1813
01:17:52,200 --> 01:17:52,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.

1814
01:17:53,040 --> 01:17:57,040
Speaker 7: So we just bump our schedule upright, So typically this

1815
01:17:57,080 --> 01:17:59,880
Speaker 7: will be our day after game.

1816
01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:01,160
Speaker 4: All right, Monday for us.

1817
01:18:01,240 --> 01:18:03,759
Speaker 7: Now we just you get we had our victory Monday,

1818
01:18:03,920 --> 01:18:06,040
Speaker 7: or this is the guys victory Monday. Now we just

1819
01:18:06,080 --> 01:18:09,160
Speaker 7: bump it all up. So now we play on Saturday.

1820
01:18:09,240 --> 01:18:12,680
Speaker 7: That's you know, we just kind that's our Sunday. Yeah,

1821
01:18:12,720 --> 01:18:15,840
Speaker 7: so tomorrow be our Wednesday. So guys may get a

1822
01:18:15,840 --> 01:18:18,960
Speaker 7: little confused we're coming here tomorrow. It's like, hey, this

1823
01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:21,680
Speaker 7: is our Wednesday, this is our Thursday, Friday, and we

1824
01:18:21,760 --> 01:18:23,720
Speaker 7: get going on the same schedule, just to keep our

1825
01:18:23,760 --> 01:18:26,880
Speaker 7: guys into the same routine that we've been on all year.

1826
01:18:26,960 --> 01:18:28,640
Speaker 6: All right, more of the upcoming game in just a

1827
01:18:28,680 --> 01:18:31,240
Speaker 6: few moments, but a little reflection on the Titans game.

1828
01:18:31,280 --> 01:18:33,080
Speaker 6: One thing that stood out to me in the first

1829
01:18:33,120 --> 01:18:37,040
Speaker 6: matchup was stop after stop after stop that you made

1830
01:18:37,280 --> 01:18:39,640
Speaker 6: the kind of energy and commitment that took, but you

1831
01:18:39,640 --> 01:18:43,040
Speaker 6: were able to duplicate that in the rematch, Coach, and

1832
01:18:43,080 --> 01:18:45,400
Speaker 6: your defense really came up strong time and time again.

1833
01:18:45,439 --> 01:18:48,400
Speaker 7: Yeah, really, as always talk about, it was the defensive line, right,

1834
01:18:48,439 --> 01:18:51,960
Speaker 7: and the pressure that they were able to generate up front, right,

1835
01:18:52,080 --> 01:18:54,320
Speaker 7: really controlling the line of scrimmage in the run game,

1836
01:18:54,680 --> 01:18:57,200
Speaker 7: and then in a passing game where and I was

1837
01:18:57,240 --> 01:18:59,280
Speaker 7: looking up it's like, okay, I don't have to really

1838
01:18:59,280 --> 01:19:01,479
Speaker 7: call a blizz. They're getting there, getting there with the

1839
01:19:01,520 --> 01:19:04,479
Speaker 7: front four. I mean, coach John, coach Roddy did a

1840
01:19:04,520 --> 01:19:08,400
Speaker 7: really great job of, you know, scheming. It's their game

1841
01:19:08,439 --> 01:19:10,719
Speaker 7: plan all right for for how we wanted to rush

1842
01:19:10,760 --> 01:19:13,080
Speaker 7: these guys. He did a really good job. No matter

1843
01:19:13,120 --> 01:19:17,960
Speaker 7: who was up, everybody was able to be effective. Everybody contributed, right,

1844
01:19:18,479 --> 01:19:21,439
Speaker 7: Kirk's getting in, We got Derek Barnell. You got will

1845
01:19:21,640 --> 01:19:25,560
Speaker 7: all right, Jerry. Each guy was able to be effective.

1846
01:19:26,040 --> 01:19:28,439
Speaker 7: Tart stepped in played big for us in the run game.

1847
01:19:28,800 --> 01:19:31,400
Speaker 7: So to have all eight d line to contribute, that

1848
01:19:31,560 --> 01:19:33,160
Speaker 7: was the reason why we were successful.

1849
01:19:34,600 --> 01:19:39,479
Speaker 6: Defensive line man stop he was very much.

1850
01:19:39,320 --> 01:19:42,280
Speaker 4: So Honorary d Liman. And he's flexing.

1851
01:19:42,400 --> 01:19:45,120
Speaker 7: He said, yeah, a box safety, I can do a

1852
01:19:45,200 --> 01:19:48,080
Speaker 7: box safety, he was. I was happy to see him

1853
01:19:48,120 --> 01:19:50,920
Speaker 7: may step up and make that tackle. And actually, Coach

1854
01:19:50,960 --> 01:19:53,120
Speaker 7: Dino had showed me a tackle he made. I think

1855
01:19:53,160 --> 01:19:56,240
Speaker 7: it was last year versus Derrick Henry on the age Like, hey, coach,

1856
01:19:56,280 --> 01:19:56,879
Speaker 7: he's done.

1857
01:19:56,680 --> 01:19:59,120
Speaker 4: It before and so it's cool to see him step

1858
01:19:59,240 --> 01:20:00,000
Speaker 4: up and do that again.

1859
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:01,519
Speaker 1: All right, coach, I'm going to kind of bridge the

1860
01:20:01,560 --> 01:20:03,360
Speaker 1: gap between what I want to ask you about with

1861
01:20:03,479 --> 01:20:09,920
Speaker 1: a stat. Your sack yardage yesterday was higher than Dereck

1862
01:20:10,080 --> 01:20:13,799
Speaker 1: Henry's rush yardage. Your sack yardage accounted for fifty yards

1863
01:20:13,800 --> 01:20:16,600
Speaker 1: and losses. Dereck Henry was only able to come up

1864
01:20:16,640 --> 01:20:19,920
Speaker 1: with forty two. And you know the nemesis he's been.

1865
01:20:20,600 --> 01:20:24,400
Speaker 1: You slowed him down almost to a crawl. This the

1866
01:20:24,439 --> 01:20:27,439
Speaker 1: time in Nashville. You did it again this time. What

1867
01:20:27,600 --> 01:20:30,280
Speaker 1: was key in making sure that he didn't hurt you.

1868
01:20:30,280 --> 01:20:33,080
Speaker 1: We've talked about eliminate the runway, killing the engine, those

1869
01:20:33,160 --> 01:20:33,719
Speaker 1: kind of things.

1870
01:20:34,040 --> 01:20:36,360
Speaker 6: Did you repeat that the way you wanted to yesterday?

1871
01:20:36,400 --> 01:20:38,479
Speaker 7: And we did, for the most part, we repeated that.

1872
01:20:38,560 --> 01:20:40,560
Speaker 7: It was also it starts with setting the ads. He

1873
01:20:40,600 --> 01:20:42,559
Speaker 7: got out on us one play where we kind of

1874
01:20:42,560 --> 01:20:45,439
Speaker 7: got nosey and peeked inside and he got a long

1875
01:20:45,520 --> 01:20:48,439
Speaker 7: run on us. But you take out that run, and

1876
01:20:48,479 --> 01:20:50,000
Speaker 7: for the most part of our guys did a good

1877
01:20:50,080 --> 01:20:53,240
Speaker 7: job of setting the edges, balling him up, making him

1878
01:20:53,280 --> 01:20:56,120
Speaker 7: check his feet, stop and start, and our guys were

1879
01:20:56,240 --> 01:20:58,800
Speaker 7: swarming and that's what allowed us to play really good

1880
01:20:58,880 --> 01:20:59,400
Speaker 7: versus him.

1881
01:20:59,439 --> 01:21:00,840
Speaker 4: Derek has been.

1882
01:21:00,720 --> 01:21:02,639
Speaker 7: A great but I think he's over a thousand yards

1883
01:21:02,640 --> 01:21:04,640
Speaker 7: of rushing again, like he's been a great back in

1884
01:21:04,640 --> 01:21:07,439
Speaker 7: this league. And it was a huge task for our guys,

1885
01:21:07,439 --> 01:21:08,920
Speaker 7: and they were up to it and knew they were

1886
01:21:08,960 --> 01:21:11,120
Speaker 7: gonna come in and try to establish a run game

1887
01:21:11,200 --> 01:21:14,040
Speaker 7: get there going again. But our guys they stood up,

1888
01:21:14,080 --> 01:21:16,360
Speaker 7: they made plays, and they played together.

1889
01:21:16,680 --> 01:21:18,439
Speaker 6: I know you probably want to run it for two

1890
01:21:18,560 --> 01:21:21,880
Speaker 6: hundred a game or whatever, coach, but we've seen tremendous

1891
01:21:21,920 --> 01:21:24,720
Speaker 6: progress here in the second part of the season. More

1892
01:21:24,840 --> 01:21:27,240
Speaker 6: consistency in the ground attack. Is that the way you

1893
01:21:27,280 --> 01:21:28,120
Speaker 6: feel about it, And.

1894
01:21:28,280 --> 01:21:31,200
Speaker 7: It has been very much more consistent, right, I think

1895
01:21:31,320 --> 01:21:33,599
Speaker 7: guys are dialed in and what we're asking them to do.

1896
01:21:34,080 --> 01:21:36,840
Speaker 7: Guys are really executing what we're asking.

1897
01:21:36,560 --> 01:21:39,439
Speaker 4: To do much better. O line, They've done a great job.

1898
01:21:39,280 --> 01:21:42,120
Speaker 7: Of targeting their guys, their hat placement being in a

1899
01:21:42,200 --> 01:21:45,160
Speaker 7: proper leverage and motor. He's done a great job of

1900
01:21:45,200 --> 01:21:47,679
Speaker 7: running the ball for us and just continue to lean

1901
01:21:47,760 --> 01:21:50,479
Speaker 7: on him and what he's able to do at creating

1902
01:21:50,479 --> 01:21:52,840
Speaker 7: those five plus runs to keep change moving.

1903
01:21:53,280 --> 01:21:54,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, he did a tremidous job.

1904
01:21:54,960 --> 01:21:57,640
Speaker 1: But your quarterback was back for the first time in

1905
01:21:58,120 --> 01:22:00,599
Speaker 1: three weeks, playing against the just Deumber two anthes back

1906
01:22:00,600 --> 01:22:03,400
Speaker 1: December thirty. First, how do you feel like CJ? No,

1907
01:22:03,520 --> 01:22:06,640
Speaker 1: he played but managed the situation, managed the operation of

1908
01:22:06,680 --> 01:22:06,920
Speaker 1: the day.

1909
01:22:07,080 --> 01:22:08,000
Speaker 5: I felt CJ.

1910
01:22:09,240 --> 01:22:11,799
Speaker 7: From the warm ups, I felt he was very calm

1911
01:22:12,200 --> 01:22:15,320
Speaker 7: like throughout the and it showed just throughout the entire game.

1912
01:22:15,400 --> 01:22:16,640
Speaker 4: He was very calm.

1913
01:22:16,920 --> 01:22:19,120
Speaker 7: He was he didn't get too high, too low, like

1914
01:22:19,320 --> 01:22:21,839
Speaker 7: even if he made a mistake or so, he was like, Okay,

1915
01:22:21,840 --> 01:22:24,600
Speaker 7: my bad and he just kept moving. He put that

1916
01:22:24,680 --> 01:22:26,719
Speaker 7: behind him and he just kept pressing forwards.

1917
01:22:26,680 --> 01:22:28,080
Speaker 5: So I really loved.

1918
01:22:27,840 --> 01:22:30,840
Speaker 7: His demeanor in the game, and I think that calmness,

1919
01:22:30,840 --> 01:22:34,200
Speaker 7: that confidence everybody felt that he played really well, made

1920
01:22:34,200 --> 01:22:37,400
Speaker 7: great decisions with the football when going through his reads,

1921
01:22:37,520 --> 01:22:39,880
Speaker 7: you know exactly how he coached him up to do it.

1922
01:22:39,960 --> 01:22:42,320
Speaker 7: So he did a really great job in this game.

1923
01:22:42,520 --> 01:22:45,000
Speaker 6: What about the chemistry he has with Nico. We know

1924
01:22:45,040 --> 01:22:47,400
Speaker 6: it's there with Tank, we don't have Tank anymore this season,

1925
01:22:47,439 --> 01:22:49,879
Speaker 6: but with Nico, clearly there's something special.

1926
01:22:49,920 --> 01:22:51,160
Speaker 4: Bro now, oh for sure.

1927
01:22:52,120 --> 01:22:54,320
Speaker 7: So I tell Nico is always open, looks like he

1928
01:22:54,439 --> 01:22:56,439
Speaker 7: just CJ is gonna find a way to get the

1929
01:22:56,439 --> 01:22:59,280
Speaker 7: ball to him, and they have that special connection, and

1930
01:22:59,320 --> 01:23:01,920
Speaker 7: it's it's really fun to see every time he lets

1931
01:23:01,960 --> 01:23:04,240
Speaker 7: it go. It's just like, who's he throwing this Nico?

1932
01:23:04,439 --> 01:23:06,800
Speaker 7: Like it's a toe tap on the sideline or something.

1933
01:23:06,840 --> 01:23:10,240
Speaker 7: He's always opened with Nico, right, he has had such

1934
01:23:10,240 --> 01:23:13,400
Speaker 7: a great year, right, And I think CJ has felt that,

1935
01:23:13,880 --> 01:23:17,439
Speaker 7: you know, that confidence in throwing the ball to Nico

1936
01:23:17,520 --> 01:23:19,800
Speaker 7: because Nico continues to make play out the play for

1937
01:23:19,920 --> 01:23:23,200
Speaker 7: him and those guys, their connection has has truly grown

1938
01:23:23,520 --> 01:23:24,479
Speaker 7: like now.

1939
01:23:24,320 --> 01:23:26,400
Speaker 4: You get can't get Tank back.

1940
01:23:26,479 --> 01:23:29,439
Speaker 7: But man, you think about the connection from CJ and

1941
01:23:29,479 --> 01:23:33,280
Speaker 7: Tank and now how it's just trans transpired to Nico

1942
01:23:33,360 --> 01:23:35,600
Speaker 7: being able to make those plays. And CJ has the

1943
01:23:35,680 --> 01:23:38,600
Speaker 7: confidence in Nico and they have a true connection. And

1944
01:23:38,600 --> 01:23:40,360
Speaker 7: that's what we have to lean on as we continue

1945
01:23:40,360 --> 01:23:43,360
Speaker 7: to press forward throughout the season. Right, that's our big

1946
01:23:43,360 --> 01:23:45,280
Speaker 7: time playmaker. We have to lean on him to make

1947
01:23:45,320 --> 01:23:46,400
Speaker 7: those plays for us.

1948
01:23:46,640 --> 01:23:49,519
Speaker 1: Coach, We've talked to both you and Nick throughout the

1949
01:23:49,600 --> 01:23:52,280
Speaker 1: year and one of the things we say, well, hey,

1950
01:23:52,280 --> 01:23:54,320
Speaker 1: this guy's injured or this guy is not able to play,

1951
01:23:54,320 --> 01:23:55,160
Speaker 1: this guy suspended.

1952
01:23:55,320 --> 01:23:55,960
Speaker 6: What are you gonna do?

1953
01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:59,400
Speaker 1: And you have constantly said three words, four words, We'll

1954
01:23:59,439 --> 01:24:03,920
Speaker 1: figure it out. Yeah, Brevin Jordan goes in at playing

1955
01:24:03,960 --> 01:24:05,240
Speaker 1: more fullback.

1956
01:24:04,800 --> 01:24:05,479
Speaker 6: Than he's played.

1957
01:24:05,520 --> 01:24:07,920
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously all tight ends nowadays are playing all

1958
01:24:07,920 --> 01:24:09,920
Speaker 1: over the place, but he played more fullback because Andrew

1959
01:24:10,240 --> 01:24:12,800
Speaker 1: ends up getting banged up and can't play. What'd you

1960
01:24:12,840 --> 01:24:14,560
Speaker 1: think of the way Brev stepped in and kind of

1961
01:24:14,600 --> 01:24:17,160
Speaker 1: accepted that role. I talked to him after the game

1962
01:24:17,280 --> 01:24:20,800
Speaker 1: and he was probably more happy about his blocking than

1963
01:24:20,840 --> 01:24:23,519
Speaker 1: he was catching the touchdown pass. What'd you think of

1964
01:24:23,560 --> 01:24:25,960
Speaker 1: him kind of stepping into the we'll figure it out

1965
01:24:25,960 --> 01:24:26,400
Speaker 1: full back.

1966
01:24:26,600 --> 01:24:28,800
Speaker 4: He fit right in. That's what it is. We figured

1967
01:24:28,800 --> 01:24:29,120
Speaker 4: it out.

1968
01:24:29,200 --> 01:24:32,640
Speaker 7: Brevin was excited about that opportunity, and it was just

1969
01:24:32,680 --> 01:24:34,479
Speaker 7: cool to see, like when he made a block and

1970
01:24:34,520 --> 01:24:36,680
Speaker 7: to hear how everybody's just fired up.

1971
01:24:36,680 --> 01:24:38,360
Speaker 4: But yeah, great block, man.

1972
01:24:38,280 --> 01:24:41,200
Speaker 7: He's coming off to the sideline. We're high five because

1973
01:24:41,520 --> 01:24:44,080
Speaker 7: everybody knows what goes into that right and how much

1974
01:24:44,080 --> 01:24:47,160
Speaker 7: it means just to make that block right. And bred

1975
01:24:47,320 --> 01:24:49,880
Speaker 7: was We always talk about dominating year one on one,

1976
01:24:50,280 --> 01:24:52,320
Speaker 7: and he did that in those instances being at the

1977
01:24:52,320 --> 01:24:55,000
Speaker 7: fullback position, and he was up for the challenge. Brev

1978
01:24:55,040 --> 01:24:57,439
Speaker 7: had a really nice game and it was cool that

1979
01:24:57,680 --> 01:25:00,479
Speaker 7: we do this compete period on Thursday. He's a third

1980
01:25:00,520 --> 01:25:03,400
Speaker 7: down compete period and Brev was open and he missed

1981
01:25:03,400 --> 01:25:06,200
Speaker 7: one and I told him and Brev, you got great

1982
01:25:06,240 --> 01:25:08,920
Speaker 7: hands man, You're gonna be in this position again and

1983
01:25:08,960 --> 01:25:11,200
Speaker 7: you're gonna make this play for us or It's none

1984
01:25:11,840 --> 01:25:14,360
Speaker 7: cooler than to see him make the play the catch

1985
01:25:14,400 --> 01:25:16,880
Speaker 7: from CJ for the touchdown. Brev has done a great

1986
01:25:16,960 --> 01:25:19,880
Speaker 7: job all year and he's continued to get better right

1987
01:25:19,920 --> 01:25:22,800
Speaker 7: in that tight end role and now slash full back.

1988
01:25:22,840 --> 01:25:25,080
Speaker 7: He's doing a good job of blocking, but he's a

1989
01:25:25,120 --> 01:25:26,680
Speaker 7: young player who's continuing to us.

1990
01:25:26,680 --> 01:25:29,640
Speaker 6: Sin what about the tackle situation. I've lost track of

1991
01:25:29,680 --> 01:25:31,320
Speaker 6: all the adjusts you had to make here of the

1992
01:25:31,360 --> 01:25:34,080
Speaker 6: O line, coach, but you had Laramie nick.

1993
01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:34,639
Speaker 5: Up or whatever.

1994
01:25:34,680 --> 01:25:37,400
Speaker 6: He had George going over the left, Charlie Heck playing right,

1995
01:25:37,479 --> 01:25:40,559
Speaker 6: and we just got him back recently relatively, So your

1996
01:25:40,600 --> 01:25:42,040
Speaker 6: thoughts on that, And.

1997
01:25:41,960 --> 01:25:44,439
Speaker 7: It starts with just man having a deep group where

1998
01:25:44,479 --> 01:25:47,320
Speaker 7: you can, you know, having that flexibility to move guys around.

1999
01:25:47,400 --> 01:25:50,200
Speaker 7: Right now, we had George who goes in that left tackle,

2000
01:25:50,640 --> 01:25:53,240
Speaker 7: and we you know, we continue to drive, we continue

2001
01:25:53,240 --> 01:25:53,960
Speaker 7: to be fishing.

2002
01:25:54,000 --> 01:25:55,240
Speaker 4: We don't lose a step there.

2003
01:25:56,520 --> 01:25:58,679
Speaker 7: Hopefully we can get Laramie back, you know this week

2004
01:25:58,680 --> 01:26:01,400
Speaker 7: hopefully is not that bad how he progresses throughout the week.

2005
01:26:01,760 --> 01:26:04,200
Speaker 7: But it's also confident to know when you got guys

2006
01:26:04,240 --> 01:26:06,920
Speaker 7: it's Charlie right and George who can step in and

2007
01:26:06,960 --> 01:26:10,160
Speaker 7: we can continue to run our offense. Guys can continue

2008
01:26:10,200 --> 01:26:13,760
Speaker 7: to protect our edges, which is the utmost important right.

2009
01:26:13,800 --> 01:26:16,120
Speaker 7: We have to make sure CJ is protecting those guys.

2010
01:26:16,120 --> 01:26:16,800
Speaker 4: Done a great job.

2011
01:26:16,960 --> 01:26:19,840
Speaker 6: How bizarre is it when you see Tier Tart makes

2012
01:26:19,840 --> 01:26:22,280
Speaker 6: a play for you against his former team, You're looking

2013
01:26:22,320 --> 01:26:24,519
Speaker 6: at Wallow over there. Wait a minute, that's that's their guy.

2014
01:26:24,600 --> 01:26:27,360
Speaker 6: Now he's playing defense for them. It's strange, but that's

2015
01:26:27,400 --> 01:26:28,160
Speaker 6: the NFL, right.

2016
01:26:28,200 --> 01:26:30,559
Speaker 7: That is a lot of moving pieces in the NFL,

2017
01:26:30,600 --> 01:26:33,240
Speaker 7: A lot of guys moving from team to team. And

2018
01:26:33,400 --> 01:26:35,920
Speaker 7: the main thing is a lot of guys like like,

2019
01:26:35,960 --> 01:26:38,479
Speaker 7: a lot of guys just want the opportunity to play, right,

2020
01:26:38,560 --> 01:26:41,240
Speaker 7: and you know, try to keep Wallow around. But he's like, man,

2021
01:26:41,280 --> 01:26:44,360
Speaker 7: I got the opportunity to go play, and as a coach,

2022
01:26:44,400 --> 01:26:45,840
Speaker 7: he kind of selfish you on to keep him, but

2023
01:26:45,840 --> 01:26:47,559
Speaker 7: at the same time, like, no, man, go.

2024
01:26:47,479 --> 01:26:49,240
Speaker 4: Ahead, right, you deserve it.

2025
01:26:49,280 --> 01:26:51,200
Speaker 7: Like he did a great job for us on our

2026
01:26:51,240 --> 01:26:54,599
Speaker 7: Scout team all throughout the year, probably one about five

2027
01:26:54,640 --> 01:26:57,080
Speaker 7: Scout Team Players of the Week, and you know, he

2028
01:26:57,200 --> 01:26:59,080
Speaker 7: deserved the opportunity to go play. So if was happy

2029
01:26:59,080 --> 01:27:02,320
Speaker 7: to see Wallow out there playing, you know, significant snaps

2030
01:27:02,320 --> 01:27:04,040
Speaker 7: and then we were able to get one of their

2031
01:27:04,080 --> 01:27:06,760
Speaker 7: guys in Tart, able to get him off of waivers

2032
01:27:07,040 --> 01:27:09,599
Speaker 7: and he's been a good addition for us. A big guy,

2033
01:27:10,240 --> 01:27:12,479
Speaker 7: you know, really playing good in a run game is

2034
01:27:12,840 --> 01:27:14,960
Speaker 7: something we've been missing in a run game. Having a

2035
01:27:15,000 --> 01:27:16,800
Speaker 7: bigger body in there. He did a good job of

2036
01:27:16,800 --> 01:27:17,720
Speaker 7: stepping up for us.

2037
01:27:17,840 --> 01:27:20,519
Speaker 1: Coach, You've had defensive stops throughout the year, and I

2038
01:27:20,600 --> 01:27:23,439
Speaker 1: think asking you your favorites, probably choosing between your kids, well,

2039
01:27:23,479 --> 01:27:24,800
Speaker 1: I love this, and then you're not going to do that.

2040
01:27:25,800 --> 01:27:28,720
Speaker 1: I feel like the one we saw yesterday was my

2041
01:27:28,840 --> 01:27:32,840
Speaker 1: favorite because it was seven opportunities for them to get

2042
01:27:32,840 --> 01:27:35,599
Speaker 1: in the end zone and you shut every single one

2043
01:27:35,640 --> 01:27:38,439
Speaker 1: of them down. And we watch on Friday that back

2044
01:27:38,520 --> 01:27:40,200
Speaker 1: end zone where you guys are working on the red

2045
01:27:40,240 --> 01:27:42,120
Speaker 1: zone routes and things like that, we see you working

2046
01:27:42,120 --> 01:27:44,439
Speaker 1: on it. I was standing at the same spot watching

2047
01:27:44,800 --> 01:27:47,040
Speaker 1: all that work really come to fruition. I think that's

2048
01:27:47,040 --> 01:27:50,200
Speaker 1: probably why I was happiest with it, because you took

2049
01:27:50,240 --> 01:27:52,360
Speaker 1: something from the practice field and put it run in

2050
01:27:52,400 --> 01:27:54,960
Speaker 1: practice out on the game field. What you think about

2051
01:27:55,000 --> 01:27:56,519
Speaker 1: when you went back and watched a film of that

2052
01:27:57,360 --> 01:27:59,759
Speaker 1: seven play stop, what'd you think of that stand?

2053
01:28:00,160 --> 01:28:02,120
Speaker 7: It makes for me is a coach just makes you

2054
01:28:02,160 --> 01:28:04,920
Speaker 7: really proud that our guys were able to go through it.

2055
01:28:05,200 --> 01:28:07,639
Speaker 7: As you spoke about the practice and how many times

2056
01:28:07,640 --> 01:28:10,400
Speaker 7: we go through all these different route concepts and we

2057
01:28:10,479 --> 01:28:13,040
Speaker 7: try to throw everything at the guys, right, and the

2058
01:28:13,080 --> 01:28:15,760
Speaker 7: way they handle it on Friday, to see them step

2059
01:28:15,800 --> 01:28:18,479
Speaker 7: into that moment in the game, as you say, seven stops,

2060
01:28:18,960 --> 01:28:22,400
Speaker 7: like everybody was so calm, so confident, and more like

2061
01:28:22,800 --> 01:28:25,559
Speaker 7: they were ridy and they matched all the routes I

2062
01:28:25,600 --> 01:28:29,040
Speaker 7: mean say perfectly. They were on it exactly where they're

2063
01:28:29,080 --> 01:28:31,839
Speaker 7: supposed to be, and no better than the one with Christian.

2064
01:28:31,880 --> 01:28:33,519
Speaker 4: He's able to play the stick route.

2065
01:28:33,960 --> 01:28:35,840
Speaker 7: Been trying to get Christian to play that all year

2066
01:28:36,120 --> 01:28:39,240
Speaker 7: and he finally plays it perfectly and gets the past

2067
01:28:39,320 --> 01:28:42,479
Speaker 7: breakup right to get the fourth down stop. Now, so

2068
01:28:42,640 --> 01:28:45,080
Speaker 7: fired up for Christian in that moment because I know

2069
01:28:45,120 --> 01:28:48,439
Speaker 7: how much work has went into like teaching and trying

2070
01:28:48,439 --> 01:28:51,040
Speaker 7: to make sure we understand those pattern matches and be

2071
01:28:51,120 --> 01:28:53,280
Speaker 7: exactly where we're supposed to be, and he had a

2072
01:28:53,320 --> 01:28:55,559
Speaker 7: perfect rep there to get us off of the field.

2073
01:28:55,640 --> 01:28:55,800
Speaker 9: Yeah.

2074
01:28:55,840 --> 01:28:57,200
Speaker 6: Now he's got to work in a judge gun because

2075
01:28:57,240 --> 01:28:57,719
Speaker 6: that's one hundred.

2076
01:28:58,640 --> 01:28:59,960
Speaker 4: Yeah right, that's one hundred the other way.

2077
01:29:00,320 --> 01:29:04,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, that'd be nice. Good highlight. Coach Kareem Jackson got

2078
01:29:04,080 --> 01:29:06,000
Speaker 6: into the game. We haven't had a chance to discuss

2079
01:29:06,080 --> 01:29:08,479
Speaker 6: him with you yet. Last week we talked, but you

2080
01:29:08,560 --> 01:29:11,400
Speaker 6: acquired him after that. So what you see from Kareem

2081
01:29:11,479 --> 01:29:13,679
Speaker 6: so far? I know it wasn't a ton of plays,

2082
01:29:13,680 --> 01:29:16,040
Speaker 6: but it was something And what are the expectations.

2083
01:29:16,240 --> 01:29:18,360
Speaker 7: Yeah, for Kareem, he wanted to get him, get him

2084
01:29:18,400 --> 01:29:20,880
Speaker 7: out fifteen to twenty snaps, just to get him, get

2085
01:29:20,880 --> 01:29:23,160
Speaker 7: his feet, we say, just to get him used. I

2086
01:29:23,200 --> 01:29:25,640
Speaker 7: know we got him in the practice on Wednesday, so

2087
01:29:25,640 --> 01:29:28,599
Speaker 7: there's a lot of new terminology right coverage as he's

2088
01:29:28,600 --> 01:29:31,120
Speaker 7: played before, but you have to get used to the terminology.

2089
01:29:31,520 --> 01:29:34,040
Speaker 7: How we do things. We made match things a little different.

2090
01:29:34,120 --> 01:29:36,360
Speaker 7: So just trying to get him, let him, allow him

2091
01:29:36,400 --> 01:29:39,080
Speaker 7: to get more comfortable with what we do and he'll

2092
01:29:39,080 --> 01:29:43,200
Speaker 7: probably snap, so probably it'll be upticking his snaps the

2093
01:29:43,280 --> 01:29:44,479
Speaker 7: more comfortable he gets.

2094
01:29:44,680 --> 01:29:47,280
Speaker 6: All Right, We've we finished the regular season.

2095
01:29:47,520 --> 01:29:49,960
Speaker 1: I said to you yesterday, welcome to the playoffs because

2096
01:29:50,400 --> 01:29:53,639
Speaker 1: it is that mode of well, we don't know after

2097
01:29:53,680 --> 01:29:54,120
Speaker 1: this week.

2098
01:29:54,360 --> 01:29:55,639
Speaker 6: I mean, win, keep playing.

2099
01:29:55,840 --> 01:29:57,600
Speaker 1: I mean you've been in that role before, coach with

2100
01:29:57,640 --> 01:29:59,759
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers, played in the playoffs with the Texans.

2101
01:30:00,080 --> 01:30:02,680
Speaker 1: There's something special. I know it's week eighteen, I get it,

2102
01:30:02,720 --> 01:30:05,840
Speaker 1: but it's a win and keep going situation which you've

2103
01:30:05,880 --> 01:30:09,400
Speaker 1: definitely earned. What are your thoughts kind of just that

2104
01:30:09,520 --> 01:30:11,800
Speaker 1: in and of itself that it comes down to one

2105
01:30:11,840 --> 01:30:13,280
Speaker 1: game to keep it going for the season.

2106
01:30:13,439 --> 01:30:15,840
Speaker 7: Yeah, like you mentioned, man, it is the playoffs right now.

2107
01:30:16,120 --> 01:30:19,080
Speaker 7: Win and you stay in And that's the mindset. That

2108
01:30:19,120 --> 01:30:21,080
Speaker 7: is how we have to approach it. That's what it is,

2109
01:30:21,439 --> 01:30:24,760
Speaker 7: win and stay in mentality. But for our guys, as

2110
01:30:24,760 --> 01:30:27,440
Speaker 7: we talk about it, as we go through our preparation

2111
01:30:27,560 --> 01:30:31,559
Speaker 7: throughout the week, your focus it still stays the same,

2112
01:30:31,680 --> 01:30:34,960
Speaker 7: just as you prepared last week. Don't make anything bigger

2113
01:30:34,960 --> 01:30:37,160
Speaker 7: than what it is. It's still about going out and

2114
01:30:37,200 --> 01:30:41,200
Speaker 7: playing clean football, about executing, about swarming, playing together. If

2115
01:30:41,240 --> 01:30:43,640
Speaker 7: we do that, then it takes care of itself. We

2116
01:30:43,880 --> 01:30:46,880
Speaker 7: can't have our guys get too hyped up about it

2117
01:30:46,920 --> 01:30:48,920
Speaker 7: being this playoff opportunity.

2118
01:30:49,200 --> 01:30:50,440
Speaker 4: We just have to.

2119
01:30:50,200 --> 01:30:53,719
Speaker 7: Remain confident, remain calm in a moment, and play clean

2120
01:30:53,880 --> 01:30:55,000
Speaker 7: and it takes care of itself.

2121
01:30:55,240 --> 01:30:57,679
Speaker 6: As opposed to the Titans, which was two weeks apart.

2122
01:30:57,760 --> 01:31:00,680
Speaker 6: Between the two matchups, the Colts weaked. It feels like

2123
01:31:00,680 --> 01:31:04,719
Speaker 6: one hundred years ago. How are you different from that game?

2124
01:31:04,800 --> 01:31:07,200
Speaker 6: You've evolved a lot as a team, since.

2125
01:31:07,000 --> 01:31:08,599
Speaker 4: That definitely have evolved a lot.

2126
01:31:08,680 --> 01:31:10,720
Speaker 7: We kind of we know who we are as a

2127
01:31:10,800 --> 01:31:13,280
Speaker 7: team now, is say in week two, you're kind of

2128
01:31:13,280 --> 01:31:15,479
Speaker 7: still trying to figure out right who you are, the

2129
01:31:15,520 --> 01:31:17,920
Speaker 7: style of play you're gonna play. You have an idea

2130
01:31:17,960 --> 01:31:19,639
Speaker 7: of how you want to do that going into the year,

2131
01:31:19,920 --> 01:31:22,400
Speaker 7: but it takes time for a team to jail, and

2132
01:31:22,479 --> 01:31:25,800
Speaker 7: it takes time to see, like who are the real playmakers,

2133
01:31:25,840 --> 01:31:28,000
Speaker 7: Who's gonna step up in those moments when the lights

2134
01:31:28,040 --> 01:31:30,040
Speaker 7: are on. So you're kind of figuring your team out,

2135
01:31:30,080 --> 01:31:33,240
Speaker 7: and man, I didn't know who we were at that

2136
01:31:33,280 --> 01:31:35,840
Speaker 7: point in time of the year. But it's awesome to

2137
01:31:35,880 --> 01:31:39,040
Speaker 7: see right the growth from our team from that game

2138
01:31:39,080 --> 01:31:42,160
Speaker 7: too to where we are now. You just you know

2139
01:31:42,200 --> 01:31:44,080
Speaker 7: who the you know who we are or you know

2140
01:31:44,120 --> 01:31:46,280
Speaker 7: the style of play that we want to play, just

2141
01:31:47,320 --> 01:31:49,599
Speaker 7: and it's just cool to see the different guys who

2142
01:31:49,600 --> 01:31:50,680
Speaker 7: are in step it up.

2143
01:31:50,720 --> 01:31:50,880
Speaker 4: Now.

2144
01:31:50,920 --> 01:31:53,200
Speaker 7: We lost a lot of guys who I was looking

2145
01:31:53,240 --> 01:31:57,200
Speaker 7: at that film like, man, where did he come from?

2146
01:31:57,240 --> 01:31:59,800
Speaker 7: Where is he now? It's like, man, it's a completely

2147
01:31:59,840 --> 01:32:04,040
Speaker 7: different teams. So it's just that's the NFL. It's such

2148
01:32:04,080 --> 01:32:07,000
Speaker 7: a long season and how you grow and how your

2149
01:32:07,040 --> 01:32:09,920
Speaker 7: team kind of shapes and forms at the end of

2150
01:32:09,920 --> 01:32:11,920
Speaker 7: the year and the jails at just the right time.

2151
01:32:11,960 --> 01:32:13,800
Speaker 7: As I told our guys, man, we're just now hitting

2152
01:32:13,800 --> 01:32:16,120
Speaker 7: our stride. You know who we are, we know how

2153
01:32:16,120 --> 01:32:17,640
Speaker 7: we need to play, we know what it takes to

2154
01:32:17,680 --> 01:32:20,680
Speaker 7: win games, and we just have to keep thriving in

2155
01:32:20,720 --> 01:32:21,120
Speaker 7: that role.

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Speaker 6: How are they different, Yeah.

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Speaker 7: They're they're different in where I think they're different. It's

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Speaker 7: just they're the running game with these guys. They ran

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Speaker 7: the ball well versus us, but now getting all right

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Speaker 7: Jonathan Taylor back, I think that's where they're gonna lean heavy.

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Speaker 4: They they're gonna run it.

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Speaker 7: They're probably running more than anybody in the league, so

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Speaker 7: we have to do a really good job of stopping

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01:32:41,160 --> 01:32:43,439
Speaker 7: to run. And the quarterback, I think he's just been

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Speaker 7: so efficient. They don't throw it deep a lot, but

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Speaker 7: when they scheme up some shot plays, they're wide open

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01:32:50,360 --> 01:32:52,559
Speaker 7: and they're able to make those plays. But they're very

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Speaker 7: efficient throwing the ball under ten yards getting the ball

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01:32:55,360 --> 01:32:59,639
Speaker 7: into their playmaker's hands. About Pittman a right and he's

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Speaker 7: able to make some big time players.

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Speaker 4: Coach.

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Speaker 1: On the defensive side of the ball, they've got two

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Speaker 1: of the best in the middle with the Forrest Buckner

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Speaker 1: and Grover Stewart. And that's one thing that hasn't changed

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Speaker 1: from week two to week eighteens.

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Speaker 6: You still got to face those two hosses in front.

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Speaker 1: How problematic is that for your interior at to block

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Speaker 1: those two.

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Speaker 5: Guys all game.

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Speaker 7: That's gonna be that's gonna be a problem. Those are

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01:33:19,439 --> 01:33:23,280
Speaker 7: two big time playmakers. They're big guys. They're gonna cause

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01:33:23,320 --> 01:33:26,000
Speaker 7: problems run game, pass games, So you have to find

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Speaker 7: ways to slow them down as much as you can.

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Speaker 4: Whether it's getting.

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Speaker 7: On the perimeter, right, double teams, sliding the front right,

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Speaker 7: sliding in protection to one.

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Speaker 4: Guy or the other.

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Speaker 7: You just have to scheme it up the proper way

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Speaker 7: so those guys don't wreck the game.

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Speaker 1: I'm still mad at John for having traded him from

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01:33:42,320 --> 01:33:44,439
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers to the Colts, but you know,

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Speaker 1: we gotta let it go at some point.

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Speaker 6: What about playing at night, the dynamic of being on

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Speaker 6: the road, you have all day in the hotel. Haven't

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Speaker 6: had this since the preseason. And this is something because,

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Speaker 6: as John said, you're used to these noon starts, So

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Speaker 6: how do you handle a day in the hotel while

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Speaker 6: you're getting ready for such a huge game at night.

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Speaker 7: I kind of go back to our preseason game versus

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01:34:05,680 --> 01:34:07,719
Speaker 7: the Saints. The last time we were in this position,

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Speaker 7: we played the night game. So I'll go back to

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Speaker 7: that schedule and kind of see how we did that.

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01:34:12,280 --> 01:34:15,200
Speaker 7: And we'll have a chapel of Mass for our guys

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01:34:15,320 --> 01:34:17,639
Speaker 7: on Saturday morning all right before the game.

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Speaker 4: They'll wake up, breakfast Chapel Mass.

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01:34:20,080 --> 01:34:22,640
Speaker 7: Then we'll have a few special teams walk through O

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01:34:22,720 --> 01:34:24,559
Speaker 7: and D walk through just to get the guys up

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01:34:24,920 --> 01:34:27,439
Speaker 7: moving around, so nobody's just laying in the bed all day.

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Speaker 7: I want the guys to be up and moving around.

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Speaker 7: And then after that, guys, whatever you need to do

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01:34:33,439 --> 01:34:36,479
Speaker 7: to get ready, hop on the buses and after your

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01:34:36,479 --> 01:34:37,920
Speaker 7: mindset right and we're ready to roll.

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Speaker 1: Couse, you want to ask you about something CJ said

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Speaker 1: during his suppressor. He said, the time is now. He's like,

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01:34:44,320 --> 01:34:45,559
Speaker 1: you know, he didn't have to say it, but it's

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01:34:45,600 --> 01:34:47,960
Speaker 1: like he's twenty two. Everybody knows the future. It's going

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01:34:48,000 --> 01:34:51,320
Speaker 1: to be great with him and with everything that's going

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01:34:51,320 --> 01:34:53,639
Speaker 1: on here. But he said, no, no, no, no, don't worry

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01:34:53,640 --> 01:34:56,240
Speaker 1: about that. We worried about it right right now, this

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01:34:56,400 --> 01:34:58,200
Speaker 1: is the time for us. We are your thoughts when

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01:34:58,240 --> 01:34:59,840
Speaker 1: your young quarterbacks or something like that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I love it because that's the truth of the matter. Right.

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Speaker 7: No one can predict what's going to happen in the future,

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01:35:07,439 --> 01:35:09,639
Speaker 7: even though people may say, oh, the future is bright

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01:35:09,800 --> 01:35:12,679
Speaker 7: or we have young talent, like every year is different.

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01:35:12,840 --> 01:35:16,880
Speaker 7: Things happen. God, you lose guys. Teams change every year,

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01:35:17,320 --> 01:35:19,760
Speaker 7: So you have to own the moment that we have

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01:35:19,920 --> 01:35:22,280
Speaker 7: right now, and right now we have an opportunity versus

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01:35:22,280 --> 01:35:25,240
Speaker 7: the Colts, so that time is right now. We handle

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01:35:25,280 --> 01:35:27,760
Speaker 7: businesses the right way. We know how good our team

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01:35:27,800 --> 01:35:30,760
Speaker 7: can be, we know how good to football we can play, so.

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Speaker 4: That time is now. And I definitely agree with what

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Speaker 4: CJ says.

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Speaker 2: The time is now.

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Speaker 1: Let's go make it happen on Saturday. We'll see you then, everybody,

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01:35:40,880 --> 01:35:41,799
Speaker 1: thanks for listening.

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Speaker 2: Go Texans.